Some weekend stable kernel updates

Posted Jan 22, 2024 9:06 UTC (Mon) by pbonzini (subscriber, #60935)
In reply to: Some weekend stable kernel updates by willy
Parent article: Some weekend stable kernel updates

> But the fact is that users don't run top of tree, and we don't really want them to. [...] one kernel a year with support for four years really isn't that onerous.

Or is it? Currently, almost everyone is using either 6.6 or a distro kernel. Marked-for-stable patches usually will apply to 6.6 and 6.7 just fine, and if not maintainers will usually pay attention to those. But beyond that, putting the responsibility on maintainers does nothing but cause burnout. Responsibility for a task needs to move as close as possible to whoever benefits from it being done.

So, if a patch fails to apply to a long term kernel, I just don't care. Canonical, SUSE and Oracle use LTS kernels, they can work *together*, upstream on attending to the failed-to-apply patches. They can build themselves the dashboard that you talked about, which I agree would be very useful.