From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Cc: Scott Branden <scott.branden@broadcom.com>, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>, Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>, BCM Kernel Feedback <bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org> Subject: Re: 5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years? Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2021 09:44:23 -0800 [thread overview] Message-ID: <f3d66398-667a-4b6b-e431-e923f8ffa079@gmail.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <YC/e93UHxa8V9Q6I@kroah.com> On 2/19/2021 7:53 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 07:05:41AM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote: >> >> >> On 2/19/2021 12:25 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 12:16:50PM -0800, Scott Branden wrote: >>>> On 2021-02-18 10:36 a.m., Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >>>>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 07:20:50PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: >>>>>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 06:53:56PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >>>>>>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 09:21:13AM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote: >>>>>>>> As a company, we are most likely shooting ourselves in the foot by not >>>>>>>> having a point of coordination with the Linux Foundation and key people >>>>>>>> like you, Greg and other participants in the stable kernel. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> What does the LF have to do with this? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> We are here, on the mailing lists, working with everyone. Just test the >>>>>>> -rc releases we make and let us know if they work or not for you, it's >>>>>>> not a lot of "coordination" needed at all. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Otherwise, if no one is saying that they are going to need these for 6 >>>>>>> years and are willing to use it in their project (i.e. and test it), >>>>>>> there's no need for us to maintain it for that long, right? >>>>>> >>>>>> Greg, please remember I expressed I really need them for slightly more than >>>>>> 3 years (say 3.5-4) :-) I'm fine with helping a bit more as time permits if >>>>>> this saves me from having to take over these kernels after you, like in the >>>>>> past, but I cannot engage on the regularity of my availability. >>>>> >>>>> Ok, great! >>>>> >>>>> That's one person/company saying they can help out (along with what CIP >>>>> has been stating.) >>>>> >>>>> What about others? Broadcom started this conversation, odd that they >>>>> don't seem to want to help out :) >>>> Greg, I'm sorry but I'm not in a position to provide such a commitment. >>> >>> Ok, who at Broadcom do I need to talk to to get that type of commitment? >> >> I am not sure if I was too subtle before, we (Broadcom) cannot give you >> an unified voice to speak with because we are divided in silos/business >> units that make their independent decisions. > > That's fine, I'm totally used to that, large (and even small) companies > always have different groups with different roadmaps and policies. > >> The group I work in (STB/CM, different from Scott's) is committed to >> using the 5.10 kernel for 6 years and that is a decision that has been >> taken. > > Great! Will you all be testing the -rc releases and letting me know how > they work for your systems? Yes I will, can you add me to your CC list for the stable candidates? That helps me not having to dig for those announcements specifically. > >> I could give you names of other decision makers in other business units >> I know who also deliver Linux for their respective business units >> however some of them may not make public appearances on mailing lists, >> let alone care about upstreaming their changes so I do not know whether >> a 6 years 5.10 kernel is even something they remotely entertain. > > That's fine, I'm not expecting emails from the list, we can take this > off-list if you like as it sounds like I need to talk to some different > managers there, right? :) I will put together a list and send you an email off list. -- Florian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-19 17:45 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2021-01-25 19:55 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 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 [this message] 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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