Kroah-Hartman: Help wanted

[Posted October 30, 2012 by corbet]

Greg Kroah-Hartman is looking for somebody to help him put stable kernels together. "I'm looking for someone to help me out with the stable Linux kernel release process. Right now I'm drowning in trees and patches, and could use some one to help me sanity-check the releases I'm doing."

Kroah-Hartman: Help wanted

Posted Oct 31, 2012 3:18 UTC (Wed) by theophrastus (guest, #80847) [Link] (6 responses)

perhaps some detail is missing here (and on the referring page), but you don't really need a hire (as much as many of us would like one)

essentially (http://www.howtoforge.com/kernel_compilation_debian_etch):

1. git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git
#then if you're on a debian distribution (or why aren't you??)
2. make clean
3. make mrproper
4. make localmodconfig (at least the first time)
5. make-kpkg clean
6. fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd kernel_image kernel_headers
7. dpkg -i linux-headers.x.y.z*custom.deb
8. dpkg -i linux-image.x.y.z*custom.deb
9. shutdown -r now

applying any patches before step#6. (baddaboom-baddabing)

Kroah-Hartman: Help wanted

Posted Oct 31, 2012 4:48 UTC (Wed) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link] (2 responses)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Kroah-Hartman

Kroah-Hartman: Help wanted

Posted Oct 31, 2012 5:12 UTC (Wed) by theophrastus (guest, #80847) [Link]

oh. nevermind.

Kroah-Hartman: Help wanted

Posted Oct 31, 2012 16:30 UTC (Wed) by ndye (guest, #9947) [Link]

He also contributes articles to LWN.net, the news computing site. [emphasis mine]

I love Wikipedia humor . . . .

Kroah-Hartman: Help wanted

Posted Oct 31, 2012 18:52 UTC (Wed) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link] (2 responses)

Surely gentoo makes more sense than debian :-) We don't have anything so namby-pamby as pre-compiled kernels ...

Cheers,
Wol

Kroah-Hartman: Help wanted

Posted Oct 31, 2012 19:21 UTC (Wed) by alvieboy (guest, #51617) [Link] (1 responses)

Using gentoo is like going to IKEA for an interview :)

https://www.smartrecruiters.com/static/blog/wp-content/up...

Kroah-Hartman: Help wanted

Posted Nov 1, 2012 19:41 UTC (Thu) by dashesy (guest, #74652) [Link]

That was very funny, I hope at least the manual has some written text though :)

Kroah-Hartman: Help wanted

Posted Nov 2, 2012 21:45 UTC (Fri) by rwmj (subscriber, #5474) [Link] (2 responses)

Friendly advice from libguestfs: We found that having fewer stable branches helped to keep focus. Now we have a maximum of 2. The kernel could do the same by saying (for example) that every alternate release won't have an associated stable branch, or by deprecating older stable branches more quickly.

Kroah-Hartman: Help wanted

Posted Nov 3, 2012 0:15 UTC (Sat) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link] (1 responses)

Depends (a) how many maintainers you have, and (b) how many "consumers" you have.

Can you imagine how hard it would be to get SUSE, RH, Ubuntu, and any other distros with LTS's, all to pick the same kernel for their releases in approximately the same time frame?

And actually, I think the kernel team only have ONE serious branch, not several. There are several development branches, that all feed into the "one true branch", that then leaves a trail of stable and semi-stable branches in its wake. And each branch has its own raison d'etre.

Cheers,
Wol

Kroah-Hartman: Help wanted

Posted Nov 10, 2012 12:26 UTC (Sat) by phil42 (guest, #5175) [Link]

the one true way! so elegant, so satisfying
^one upvote