From: Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Huxinwei <huxinwei@huawei.com>,
Scott Branden <scott.branden@broadcom.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Yanjin <yanjin.yan@huawei.com>,
BCM Kernel Feedback <bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com>,
Zhaohongjiang <zhaohongjiang@huawei.com>,
"Zhangdianfang \(Dianfang, OS Lab\)" <zhangdianfang@huawei.com>,
Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@huawei.com>,
PEIXIN HOU <PEIXIN.HOU@huawei.com>,
Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2021 15:02:54 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a0e56fe4-8e85-d8c7-ed63-7a96c0944aaf@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YC+AEcuXhPXXtmRB@kroah.com>
On 2021/2/19 17:08, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 04:54:24PM +0800, Hanjun Guo wrote:
>> Hi Greg,
>>
>> On 2021/1/26 15:29, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> [...]
>>>
>>> I want to see companies _using_ the kernel, and most importantly,
>>> _updating_ their devices with it, to know if it is worth to keep around
>>> for longer than 2 years. I also, hopefully, want to see how those
>>> companies will help me out in the testing and maintenance of that kernel
>>> version in order to make supporting it for 6 years actually possible.
>>>
>>> So, are you planning on using 5.10? Will you will be willing to help
>>> out in testing the -rc releases I make to let me know if there are any
>>> problems, and to help in pointing out and backporting any specific
>>> patches that your platforms need for that kernel release?
>>
>> We(Huawei) are willing to commit resources to help out in testing the
>> stable -rc releases, and to help to backport patches for stable kernels.
>
> Wonderful!
>
>> 5.10 stable kernel will be used for openEuler [1] kernel and also inside
>> Huawei. From customer's feedback, it's very important to see the stable
>> kernel we used to be maintained for 6 years in the community, and we
>> will use 5.10 kernel for at least 6 years, so we are willing to help
>> you and help ourselves :)
>>
>> In specific, we will start from the testing work, using HULK robot
>> (reports lots of bugs to mainline kernel) testing framework to test
>> compile, reboot, functional testing, and will extend to basic
>> performance regression testing in the future.
>
> Great! Do you all need an email notification when the -rc releases come
> out for the stable trees, or can you trigger off of the -rc stable git
> tree? Different CI systems work in different ways :)
We can trigger the test when you updated the -rc stable git tree,
by monitoring new commits for the stable branches. So if you push
all the commits at once for -rc stable branches, then our CI system
can work well.
>
> And if you can reply to the -rc release emails with a "Tested-by:" tag,
> I will be glad to add that to the release commit when that happens to
> show that you all have tested the release.
Thanks, will reply "Tested-by:" with -rc releases. We are working on
setting up the test farm and will report the test results in a week.
>
>> And we will start from ARM64 and X86 architecture first, and then extend
>> to other platforms.
>
> That's a good start, the useful ones :)
>
>> For patch backporting, will send the bugfix patches (from mainline)
>> we spotted, but I think this work may not doing in regular but will
>> be triggered as needed.
>
> That's fine, it is not something that happens at a regular interval.
>
>> Does this sound good to you?
>
> Yes it does, thank you so much.
>
> greg k-h
Thanks
Hanjun
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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
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 [this message]
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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