From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Jari Ruusu <jariruusu@protonmail.com>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>,
Jari Ruusu <jariruusu@users.sourceforge.net>,
Scott Branden <scott.branden@broadcom.com>,
Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
BCM Kernel Feedback <bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com>
Subject: Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2021 09:22:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YC91OWVGAfyorRbc@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <sjYC-8XCIa2KTTlzjXs95LPnYQJvJe3Lrz4tR9NZTLLIfQpWLquW6W2siZAP7wtgHXOsK5bSxo8JqJp7iPLQ_NtDhh8GbES8J3dUlB5sqYs=@protonmail.com>
On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 07:10:35AM +0000, Jari Ruusu wrote:
> On Thursday, February 18, 2021 7:44 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > > It was the other way around. Fine working in-tree driver got
> > > broken by backported "fixes". I did mention bit-rot.
> >
> > It did? Please let us stable maintainers know about, we will always
> > gladly revert problems patches. What commits caused the problem?
>
> I don't have a list of commits for you. It took me long time to
> figure out that it was iwlwifi that was causing those problems.
>
> In-tree iwlwifi on 4.19.y kernels needs professional quality
> locking audit and backporting of necessary fixes from upstream
> Intel out-of-tree version.
That's not the goal of stable kernel releases/trees. If the driver
version that is in 4.19.y does not work for you on release 4.19.0, odds
of that "changing" in later stable releases is slim to none.
Especially without any specific bug reports or emails to the developers
to tell them what is broken and not working for you.
If however, you wish to stick with an out-of-tree driver, wonderful,
that's your choice. But don't claim that somehow the stable kernel
process is broken because of that, as it has nothing to do with this
type of thing.
Best of luck!
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-19 8:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ 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
2021-02-17 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 [this message]
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
2021-02-19 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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