On 3/31/20 4:14 AM, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote:
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.
OK. I guess we can go with that.
-- Bruce
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