Stable backports of subsystems
Stable backports of subsystems
Posted Jun 20, 2023 23:53 UTC (Tue) by jhoblitt (subscriber, #77733)In reply to: Stable backports of subsystems by geofft
Parent article: Backporting XFS fixes to stable
I think that the enterprise Linux distro backporting effort might be better directed to testing mainline releases for regressions. Sure, problems can happen with updates and I've certainly expired problems with fedora kernel updates. More closing tracking mainline releases doesn't seem practical with where we are today. However, I'm not sure if end users are better served by herculian backporting efforts to 3.10 than they would be by that effort being invested in testing a mainline kernel with a suitable kconfig.
The LWN site is currently under high scraper load, so comment display has been suppressed for anonymous users. If you are a human, you may read the comments by clicking the button below:
Note: you can avoid this step in the future by logging into your LWN account.