On Thu, 02 Jun 2016 18:19:31 +0200, Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 9:30 AM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:
Furthermore, it sounds like that it's a kernel regression that dropped the support. If so, they should be merged through stable 4.4.x branch as well.
As noted by Richard Brown recently, the 4.4.x LTS kernel is getting a huge amount of changes:
=== https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.4.1 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.4.2 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.4.3 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.4.4 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.4.5 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.4.6 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.4.7 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.4.8 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.4.9 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.4.10 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.4.11
That is over FOURTY THOUSAND lines of changelog entries alone. Not code. _changelog_
So there does seem to any political reason to not ask to have the fix backported via the official upstream kernel.
It makes little sense to count lines, really. 99% of such cases are just because of lack of Cc to stable in the commit log. Usually the patch author is supposed to put Cc to stable when the patch is for fixing a regression. But people often forget it, and maintainers don't pay extra attention always to that, either. If the patches are confirmed indeed for fixing real bugs, especially regressions at a later stage, and if they are backportable, they can go to stable kernels at any time later, too. You just need to test the patches, and send/inform to stable maintainers which commits to be backported to which kernel. This can be done by anyone, including you :) Takashi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+owner@opensuse.org