On Wed, 10 Aug 2022 at 22:30, Philip Prindeville <[email protected]> wrote: > > Not to play the devil's advocate but... do we want old kernels hanging out > that long? > > Besides not encouraging people to update to new releases that mitigate > discovered CVE's, we'd also not pick up David Taht's excellent improvements > in Buffer Bloat.
I have to agree with this. What would be the benefit for OpenWrt with having LTS kernels supported for 6 years? Backporting stuff is already hard with only 2 LTS versions supported in OpenWrt. Regards, Robert > > > > On Aug 8, 2022, at 5:15 PM, Florian Fainelli <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Greg KH has communicated a few times before on his blog [1] that he is > > seeking the help of individuals and company to help him maintain the LTS > > kernels and allow them to be made 6 years instead of just the usual 2 years. > > > > 5.10 is a 6 year LTS, but 5.15 is not listed as such, although it certainly > > would make sense for it to be since we use 5.15 in OpenWrt. > > > > It would be good for the project to have a designated contact who can > > communicate the kernel version plan ahead of time, or once a LTS is picked > > up, we could sign up people to do regular testing of the stable release > > candidates? > > > > Thoughts? > > > > [1]: > > http://kroah.com/log/blog/2021/02/03/helping-out-with-lts-kernel-releases/ > > -- > > Florian > > > > _______________________________________________ > > openwrt-devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel > > > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
