On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 12:03 PM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 04:13:00PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 09, 2016 at 05:21:30PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> >
> > > the latest stable kernel.  (But even if they do, apparently many
> > > device vendors aren't bothering to merge in changes from the SOC's BSP
> > > kernel, even if the BSP kernel is getting -stable updates.)
> >
> > It would be pretty irresponsible for device vendors to be merging BSP
> > trees, they're generally development things with ongoing feature updates
> > that might interact badly with things the system integrator has done
> > rather than something stable enough to just merge constantly.
>
> So the question is who actually uses -stable kernels, and does it make
> sense for it even to be managed in a git tree?
>
> Very few people will actually be merging them, and in fact maybe
> having a patch queue which is checked into git might actually work
> better, since it sounds like most people are just cherry-picking
> specific patches.
>
>
This is exactly what stable-queue.git is. It has been around for a long
time, and fairly helpful for cherry-picking specific patches or testing
queued patches before an rc is called out.

Justin