Why "how soon can we remove X" instead of "how long can we have X"?
Why "how soon can we remove X" instead of "how long can we have X"?
Posted Sep 2, 2025 16:18 UTC (Tue) by wtarreau (subscriber, #51152)In reply to: Why "how soon can we remove X" instead of "how long can we have X"? by corbet
Parent article: The future of 32-bit support in the kernel
Among the criteria for prolongating support, such as "boards are no longer sold", there could be "lots of whiners among users" due to this or that cheap device having been quite popular in its time :-)
Posted Sep 4, 2025 11:22 UTC (Thu)
by hmh (subscriber, #3838)
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"Chipset not-yet-in-EOL" and "units sold" metrics often just mean "stock vendor firmware stuck on a kernel from the past decade + landfill"...
Why "how soon can we remove X" instead of "how long can we have X"?
Well, IMHO lots of "whiners" *is* a decent metric for the importance of the continued support for the device in the kernel (and userspace, etc): it actually means people who use said devices to run Linux and keep it up-to-date, and who *care* about it.