From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Jari Ruusu <jariruusu@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
BCM Kernel Feedback <bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com>,
Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>,
Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
Scott Branden <scott.branden@broadcom.com>
Subject: Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 15:29:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YC55t1vkRuC9uXcx@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <602E766F.758C74D8@users.sourceforge.net>
On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 04:15:11PM +0200, Jari Ruusu wrote:
> Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > The only set of fixes that can be trusted are the "official" stable
> > kernels, because they are the only ones that are approved by the patches
> > authors themselves. Adding more stuff on top of stable kernels is fine
> > (and done at your own risk), but randomly dropping stuff from stable
> > kernels just because you don't think you need that is totally non-sense
> > and must not be done anymore!
>
> This may be little bit off-topic... but stable kernel.org kernels
> can also bit-rot badly because of "selective" backporting... as in
> anything that does not apply cleanly gets dropped regardless of
> how critical they are.
>
> I will give you one example: Intel WiFi (iwlwifi) on 4.19.y
> kernel.org stable kernels is currently missing many critical
> locking fixes.
Why has no one asked for the specific upstream commits to be backported
if this is the case?
> As a result, that in-tree iwlwifi driver causes
> erratic behavior to random unrelated processes, and has been doing
> so for many months now. My not-so-politically correct opinion is
> that in-tree iwlwifi is completely FUBAR unless someone steps up
> to do professional quality backport of those locking fixes from
> upstream out-of-tree Intel version [1] [2] of the driver.
Why does any out-of-tree driver come into play here? What is wrong with
the in-kernel code?
> For me
> only way to get properly working WiFi on my laptop computer is to
> compile that Intel out-of-tree version. Sad, but true.
Why use 4.19.y on a laptop in the firstplace? That feels very wrong and
is not the recommended thing to use the LTS kernels for.
thanks,
greg k-h
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-18 14:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-25 19:55 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years? Scott Branden
2021-01-26 2:50 ` Adam Borowski
2021-01-26 7:29 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-26 17:35 ` Florian Fainelli
2021-01-26 18:30 ` Scott Branden
2021-01-26 18:51 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-26 20:15 ` Willy Tarreau
2021-01-29 10:00 ` 10 years -- was " Pavel Machek
2021-02-17 9:40 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-17 19:48 ` Scott Branden
2021-02-18 7:43 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-18 11:31 ` Willy Tarreau
2021-02-18 14:15 ` Jari Ruusu
2021-02-18 14:29 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2021-02-18 20:55 ` Pavel Machek
2021-02-18 22:43 ` Ondrej Zary
2021-02-19 8:00 ` Pavel Machek
2021-02-19 8:30 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-18 14:33 ` Willy Tarreau
2021-02-18 17:19 ` Jari Ruusu
2021-02-18 17:22 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2021-02-18 17:44 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-19 7:10 ` Jari Ruusu
2021-02-19 8:22 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-19 10:31 ` Jari Ruusu
2021-02-19 10:37 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-19 10:57 ` Jari Ruusu
2021-02-19 11:16 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-19 15:23 ` Jari Ruusu
2021-02-20 13:29 ` Jari Ruusu
2021-02-20 16:05 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-20 17:06 ` Willy Tarreau
2021-02-21 11:38 ` Jari Ruusu
2021-02-19 16:50 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-02-18 17:16 ` Florian Fainelli
2021-02-18 12:51 ` Pavel Machek
2021-02-18 16:51 ` Sasha Levin
2021-02-18 17:21 ` Florian Fainelli
2021-02-18 17:53 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-18 17:57 ` Florian Fainelli
2021-02-18 18:20 ` Willy Tarreau
2021-02-18 18:36 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-18 20:16 ` Scott Branden
2021-02-18 21:00 ` Willy Tarreau
2021-02-18 22:38 ` Scott Branden
2021-02-18 21:39 ` Sasha Levin
2021-02-18 22:00 ` Florian Fainelli
2021-02-18 22:26 ` Scott Branden
2021-02-19 8:25 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-19 15:05 ` Florian Fainelli
2021-02-19 15:53 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-19 17:44 ` Florian Fainelli
2021-02-22 14:17 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-18 17:42 ` Florian Fainelli
2021-02-18 18:13 ` Willy Tarreau
2021-02-18 10:04 ` Pavel Machek
2021-01-29 9:49 ` Pavel Machek
2021-02-19 8:54 ` Hanjun Guo
2021-02-19 9:08 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-20 7:02 ` Hanjun Guo
2021-02-20 9:53 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-23 2:14 ` Hanjun Guo
2021-02-19 14:45 ` Nikolai Kondrashov
2021-02-26 8:03 ` Hanjun Guo
2021-02-26 11:21 ` Nikolai Kondrashov
2021-02-22 14:00 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2021-02-22 14:24 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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