Re: [meta-raspberrypi][PATCH 1/1] linux-raspberrypi_4.7.bb: upgrade to latest good version

[Herve Jourdain <herve.jourdain@neuf.fr>]

Hi Khem,

If I may, I have an interest in keeping 4.7 for a few more months (2 or 3 I
guess).
I'm using it for a few things, and I don't currently plan to switch to 4.8,
but rather to 4.9 when it's more stable (hence the 2 or 3 additional
months).
As you already know, 4.9 is supposed to be the next LTS (if Greg
Kroah-Hartman doesn't change his mind), and I'd like to wait for it while
keep using the version I already use.

This said, given the recent rebasing on the raspberrypi github, at least for
version 4.7, it definitely is a maintenance burden.
If that can help, I'm volunteering to maintain the revision for the 4.7
raspberrypi linux kernel, for the next 2 to 3 months.

After that, the question that will remain is what revisions do we keep: we
currently have 4.1, 4.4, 4.7 and 4.8.
We will soon have 4.9.
4.1 and 4.4 are LTS (EOL = 09/2017 & 02/2018), neither 4.7 nor 4.8 will be,
and 4.9 is supposed to be.
What do you think we should do, scrap 4.1 and 4.7, leaving 4.4, 4.8 and 4.9?
Or keep only the LTS ones?

Herve

-----Original Message-----
From: Khem Raj [mailto:raj.khem@gmail.com] 
Sent: jeudi 17 novembre 2016 18:17
To: Herve Jourdain <herve.jourdain@neuf.fr>; yocto@yoctoproject.org
Subject: Re: [yocto] [meta-raspberrypi][PATCH 1/1] linux-raspberrypi_4.7.bb:
upgrade to latest good version



On 11/17/16 5:13 AM, Herve Jourdain wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Herve Jourdain <herve.jourdain@neuf.fr>
> ---
>  recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi_4.7.bb | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi_4.7.bb 
> b/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi_4.7.bb
> index 0315f8f..4a8fe36 100644
> --- a/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi_4.7.bb
> +++ b/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-raspberrypi_4.7.bb
> @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
>  FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/${PN}-${PV}:"
>  
> -LINUX_VERSION ?= "4.7.7"
> +LINUX_VERSION ?= "4.7.10"

I think, we should abandon all non-lts recipes except one which will be
latest release ( 4.8 ) as of today.

>  
> -SRCREV = "a45a35c08598b23f9fd82e49c83b46c7d536244f"
> +SRCREV = "e7fa325a40f260ed9fb86391a0b65150eba8c112"
>  SRC_URI =
"git://github.com/raspberrypi/linux.git;protocol=git;branch=rpi-4.7.y \
>             file://0001-fix-dtbo-rules.patch \  "
>