On Tue, 2020-03-31 at 08:52 +0800, Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev wrote: > On 2020-03-30 15:05 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > > We have almost always updated the linux kernel to the "mainline" > > release. We do skip intermediate releases though because of the > > frequency of releases. > > > > For instance, today is the 90th day of the year, but there have > > been > > about 34 releases. The first release of the year was 5.4.8. There > > is a > > little overlap there because 5.4 is a longterm release. In any > > case > > there have been 13 releases for 5.5 since February 1st (14 if you > > count > > 5.6). > > > > I would like to propose keeping the kernel at the most recent long > > term > > support (LTS) version for the book. Users can, of course, use > > whatever > > version they want. > > > > What do you think? > > > > -- Bruee > > For 5.4 LTS, we got 21 releases in this year, and 12 releases since > Feb. 1st. > No significant improvement. LTS meaning continuing maintenance so > we'll still > get one release for each severe bug (even if it's a bug in a strange > server > motherboard). > > I think we can just hold on kernel 5.x.0 for the development book > unless there > is a bug making it unusable. (There is already a note telling the > audience to > use latest 5.x.y.) And, we should update to latest 5.x.y before 9.2. >
I'd say that what we have (update the kernel to latest when updating other parts of the book) is not so bad, except we should refrain to update to whatever.0 versions. It's not because the maintainers have done some mistake once (modifying a driver between the last rc and the release IIUC), that they always will do, but we should consider whatever.0 versions are still "development" (not only for kernel actually). With this policy, chances are that the first version we include in a 5.x series is higher than 5.x.1. Anyway, since LTS gets updated very often too, there is no much gain in using LTS. Pierre -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
