From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix, from userid 118) id 1F1B2E00807; Wed, 20 Aug 2014 16:30:26 -0700 (PDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on yocto-www.yoctoproject.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-HAM-Report: * -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] Received: from mail.ahsoftware.de (h1446028.stratoserver.net [85.214.92.142]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AF2DE004F5 for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2014 16:30:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.ahsoftware.de (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 61EE82C9C6B6; Thu, 21 Aug 2014 01:30:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from eiche.ahsoftware (p57B22A6E.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [87.178.42.110]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.ahsoftware.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 26B1A2C9C6B3 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 2014 01:30:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: by eiche.ahsoftware (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 09B0F8C359; Thu, 21 Aug 2014 01:30:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: from krabat.ahsoftware (unknown [IPv6:feee::5246:5dff:fe8b:95f8]) by eiche.ahsoftware (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55B328C199; Wed, 20 Aug 2014 23:29:25 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <53F52F54.2020102@ahsoftware.de> Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 01:29:24 +0200 From: Alexander Holler User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lauren Post , "meta-freescale@yoctoproject.org" References: <8f1e8166115a4a4381ded78a5536c001@BY2PR03MB379.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> <23db6296a5b24ce3accdde41476d7d6d@DM2PR0301MB0701.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> <53F52703.6090006@ahsoftware.de> In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: i.MX 3.10.31-1.1.0_beta release - community feedback requested X-BeenThere: meta-freescale@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Usage and development list for the meta-fsl-* layers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 23:30:26 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Am 21.08.2014 01:04, schrieb Lauren Post: > Our policy is to be at LTSI kernel which is 3.10.31 http://ltsi.linuxfoundation.org/ Oh, another longterm stable tree. Thanks for enlighten me. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Alexander Holler [mailto:holler@ahsoftware.de] > Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2014 5:54 PM > To: Post Lauren-RAA013; meta-freescale@yoctoproject.org > Subject: Re: [meta-freescale] i.MX 3.10.31-1.1.0_beta release - community feedback requested > > Am 18.08.2014 17:32, schrieb Lauren Post: > > Hello, > > I'm new to i.MX6 and don't use yocto, so pelase forgive me if I ask a maybe stupid question. > >> - Kernel upgrade to 3.10.31 > > 3.10.y is already at 3.10.52. Is there any reason why the current stable version of the longterm 3.10.y branch isn't used as a base? > > Because I've run into a problem with 3.10.17 which was fixed with > v3.10.22 (december last year) I've recently rebased those 1200+ patches myself on top of 3.10.52, without any problems (took me around 15 minutes to solve 3 conflicts, testing excluded). So merging the current stable version of 3.10.y, if prefered, should be equally easy. > > My understanding of the stable trees is that they are especially used to provide security fixes (besides bugfixes). So I don't really understand why about 20 minor releases of maybe import fixes are ignored. > > Regards, > > Alexander Holler >