Le Thursday 30 October 2014 à 07:39 +0100, Takashi Iwai a écrit :
At Wed, 29 Oct 2014 13:36:35 +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
So 3.16 is literally dead.
Oh really? That's bad for openSUSE 13.2.
The discussion seems stalling again. So, do I understand correctly that we won't do any fixes for openSUSE 13.2 kernel unless explicitly specified in bug reports, right?
As an upstream kernel maintainer, I try to spot relevant fixes in my areas and backport them to openSUSE kernels from time to time. Basically I grep the stable kernel changes (ChangeLog-3.17.* for now) for specific keywords. I hope others are doing the same, but maybe not. Anyway, even if we had picked kernel 3.17 for openSUSE 13.2, let's be honest, that wouldn't have solved the maintenance problem [1]. It would only have made things better for ~3 months, which is not so meaningful for a distribution that is maintained for 18 months. Unless we are lucky and we pick a kernel which ends up being an upstream longterm kernel, "we" either have to volunteer to maintain the kernel as a longterm kernel ourselves, or "we" have to do the cherry-picking work (as I'm doing, or trying to do.) The problem is of course to define "we" in the sentence above. [1] Kernel 3.17 would have been mostly valuable for hardware enablement, methinks. -- Jean Delvare SUSE L3 Support -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+owner@opensuse.org