On Tuesday, 10 January 2017 20:17 Takashi Iwai wrote:
as we've started the development of openSUSE Leap 42.3, this question seems mandatory:
Should we - A) use a kernel based on SLE12-SP3 (4.4.x), or - B) fork an own branch based on 4.9.x?
Personally I would very much prefer a SLE backed kernel as I believe these are much better maintained, based on my experience with Evergreen 11.4 and 13.1 and (shortly) openSUSE-42.2. On the other hand, I can see that 4.4 kernel would be unacceptable for many users with new hardware. We do backport hardware support in SLE but that's strongly focused on hardware interesting for SLE customers which can be very different from what openSUSE users want and need. So I'm afraid switching to newer kernel will be inevitable. But based on previous experience with openSUSE kernels without upstream stable, we should IMHO try hard to have an upstream LTS. So I guess it should be first LTS that is announced (4.9?). As most of my systems would work nicely with 4.4, I'm seriously considering either keeping openSUSE-42.2 alive after it's officially retired or creating an alternative 42.3 kernel branch based on SLE12-SP3. Providing such (unofficial) alternative could satisfy users who would prefer older but SLE backed kernel.
C) keep rolling until the next LTS kernel is released, then stick with LTS kernel.
I don't like this idea very much. Personally, I wouldn't mind, but I'm afraid we have a lot of users using out-of-tree drivers and big part of them is even using closed source out-of-tree drivers. Michal Kubeček -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+owner@opensuse.org