On Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 10:37:16AM +0200, Janpieter Sollie wrote: > Hi Kent, > > At 12/09/2025 01:19 Kent Overstreet wrote: > > - My git trees are still there, and I'm going to switch to basing them > > on .0 releases. For people who are comfortable with compiling kernels > > or want to avoid DKMS hassle, this is something to keep in mind. > I'm happy to read that, I've always been a fan of "trim unused exported > kernel symbols", > If you want to boot directly from EFI to root, skipping bootloader (I do), > this avoids a mess as well. > > However, for vanilla 6.12 LTS kernel the situation is not clear to me: > Bcachefs is marked as "Experimental" but "Maintained" in 6.12 tree. > Will you still be able to post bug fixes to Greg in the 6.12 code? > Are you even supposed to do that for an experimental kernel subsystem?
Note that while we're experimental, I've only been doing backports for the absolutely critical bugs - 6.12 has not been supported for bcachefs in quite some time. There's no rule one way or the other that I know of, it's just been a bandwidth issue with the sheer amount of bugfixing going on. But, bugfixing has dropped off dramatically, and we are getting close to finally lifting the experimental label. So we can start to think about what LTS kernel support will look like soon :) DKMS should make that easier, too. I have a plan for multiple release channels (that don't lag nearly as far behind as LTS kernels), but I'll write that up when we're ready for it.
