Super long-term kernel support

Posted Mar 21, 2018 17:53 UTC (Wed) by JFlorian (guest, #49650)
In reply to: Super long-term kernel support by Cyberax
Parent article: Super long-term kernel support

There's a very large difference between intelligently managed continuous updates and the reckless haphazard scenario you seem to think I'm prescribing.

Super long-term kernel support

Posted Mar 21, 2018 18:04 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

Well, most of industrial hardware designers have processes for responsible updates.

They usually involve months (if not years) of testing both software and hardware under varying conditions. You wouldn't want your thermal management system to freeze because an update introduced a subtle memory leak or a race condition that become apparent only after a couple of months of runtime.

CIP will provide a better foundation for it, but it most definitely won't solve the issue of long deployment cycles.