Stable kernel reporting

Posted Nov 27, 2021 20:53 UTC (Sat) by corbet (editor, #1)
In reply to: Stable kernel 5.15.5 by birdie
Parent article: Stable kernel 5.15.5

I'm sorry if you don't like how we report on stable updates. But, with regard to the updates themselves, please bear in mind that you are attacking the work of somebody who puts in vast amounts of time to make these updates available to you, for free. I don't doubt he would appreciate some help if you know how to do it better.

With regard to the changelogs, those come with the updates and are generated directly from Git. Per-subsystem would be a lot harder to do. I classify patches by subsystem for the weekly edition patch listing; it takes a fair amount of time and it's often not obvious where a given patch should go. If somebody were to offer to provide this classification service for you, for free naturally, I don't doubt you would take issue with how many patches are sorted. Just can't win, I guess.