LWN: Comments on "A long-term kernel support update"

A long-term kernel support update

oseemann — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:16:55 +0000

You are right. I meant that I'd be happy to see 3.2 (or later) as a longterm release, instead of 3.0, because of the writeback changes.

A long-term kernel support update

jrn — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:03:30 +0000

$ git log 7cf801cfc077 ^origin/master
$

Merged today at 10:55 pacific time, apparently, if "git log --ancestry-path 7cf801cfc077..origin/master" is not tricking me.

A long-term kernel support update

pkern — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:09:11 +0000

Then I have to take that back. Kudos to Seth! Any idea when this will land in
mainline, if it didn't already? I guess the author would need to send an
explicit merge requests to take something from -next?

A long-term kernel support update

corbet — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:11:57 +0000

The writeback changes are big and intrusive, though; they are just the sort of thing that is not supposed to go into stable updates.

A long-term kernel support update

oseemann — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:08:38 +0000

I'd be happy to see the next longtime kernel include the recent writeback changes, which came in with 3.2.

A long-term kernel support update

jrn — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:01:58 +0000

linux-next seems to include support for recent ALPS touchpads (commit 25bded7cd60f, "Input: ALPS - add support for protocol versions 3 and 4"). Does it not work? Any links for people who missed the fuss?

A long-term kernel support update

pkern — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:42:21 +0000

They should've tried harder to push Dell and ALPS to provide a sane driver. As far as I know the current patchset was rejected upstream because it's only doing magical undocumented initialization and then falling back to a dumber protocol (i.e. IMPS/2) than you'd normally talk with a touchpad. In the end, if customers actually had a choice, they'd avoid the Dell laptops for exactly that reason (and if you use the touchpad, it is dazed and confused even with the patch once in a while).

A long-term kernel support update

iabervon — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:02:03 +0000

I imagine they'd find it most straightforward to follow the usual long-term support procedure to generate a vanilla 2.6.32.x, and they add their own patches to that. If you don't follow the standard practice, there's no benefit to officially adopting the series.

A long-term kernel support update

mpagano — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:38:37 +0000

I hope Ubuntu does upstream their patchset but from their history and current actions (see ALPS Dell patchset), I have doubts.