Re: Reaching out to Greg KH for 6 year LTS kernel versions

2022-08-13 Thread Robert Marko
On Fri, 12 Aug 2022 at 23:12, Florian Fainelli wrote: > > On 8/12/22 13:28, Robert Marko wrote: > > On Fri, 12 Aug 2022 at 21:45, Florian Fainelli wrote: > >> > >> On 8/12/22 11:09, Robert Marko wrote: > >>> On Fri, 12 Aug 2022 at 19:54, Florian Fainelli > >>> wrote: > > On 8/10/22

Re: Reaching out to Greg KH for 6 year LTS kernel versions

2022-08-13 Thread Rich Brown
> On Aug 12, 2022, at 5:12 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote: > >> As an idea, I understand this, it would basically be an "LTS" OpenWrt >> release that >> would receive security-only updates. >> However, we had a long discussion on the IRC today and the resources are >> spread >> rather thin even

Re: Reaching out to Greg KH for 6 year LTS kernel versions

2022-08-12 Thread Florian Fainelli
On 8/12/22 13:28, Robert Marko wrote: On Fri, 12 Aug 2022 at 21:45, Florian Fainelli wrote: On 8/12/22 11:09, Robert Marko wrote: On Fri, 12 Aug 2022 at 19:54, Florian Fainelli wrote: On 8/10/22 13:32, Robert Marko wrote: On Wed, 10 Aug 2022 at 22:30, Philip Prindeville wrote: Not to

Re: Reaching out to Greg KH for 6 year LTS kernel versions

2022-08-12 Thread Florian Fainelli
On 8/12/22 13:49, Philip Prindeville wrote: On Aug 12, 2022, at 11:54 AM, Florian Fainelli wrote: One aspect I could see is take for instance a device that is widely popular amongst our user base as was TI's ar7 for instance a while back, and for which we might have done a Linux 5.4, or

Re: Reaching out to Greg KH for 6 year LTS kernel versions

2022-08-12 Thread Philip Prindeville
> On Aug 12, 2022, at 11:54 AM, Florian Fainelli wrote: > > One aspect I could see is take for instance a device that is widely popular > amongst our user base as was TI's ar7 for instance a while back, and for > which we might have done a Linux 5.4, or 5.10 version at the time but we do >

Re: Reaching out to Greg KH for 6 year LTS kernel versions

2022-08-12 Thread Philip Prindeville
> On Aug 12, 2022, at 11:53 AM, Florian Fainelli wrote: > > OK, the 3-4 years time frame is not something that we currently have with > Linux kernels, it is either 2 years or 6 years, since 6 > 4, it sounds like > we still have some interest in having 6 LTS kernels, but maybe not have every

Re: Reaching out to Greg KH for 6 year LTS kernel versions

2022-08-12 Thread Philip Prindeville
> On Aug 12, 2022, at 2:28 PM, Robert Marko wrote: > > On Fri, 12 Aug 2022 at 21:45, Florian Fainelli wrote: >> >> On 8/12/22 11:09, Robert Marko wrote: >>> On Fri, 12 Aug 2022 at 19:54, Florian Fainelli wrote: On 8/10/22 13:32, Robert Marko wrote: > On Wed, 10 Aug 2022 at

Re: Reaching out to Greg KH for 6 year LTS kernel versions

2022-08-12 Thread Robert Marko
On Fri, 12 Aug 2022 at 21:45, Florian Fainelli wrote: > > On 8/12/22 11:09, Robert Marko wrote: > > On Fri, 12 Aug 2022 at 19:54, Florian Fainelli wrote: > >> > >> On 8/10/22 13:32, Robert Marko wrote: > >>> On Wed, 10 Aug 2022 at 22:30, Philip Prindeville > >>> wrote: > > Not to play

Re: Reaching out to Greg KH for 6 year LTS kernel versions

2022-08-12 Thread Florian Fainelli
On 8/12/22 11:09, Robert Marko wrote: On Fri, 12 Aug 2022 at 19:54, Florian Fainelli wrote: On 8/10/22 13:32, Robert Marko wrote: On Wed, 10 Aug 2022 at 22:30, Philip Prindeville wrote: Not to play the devil's advocate but... do we want old kernels hanging out that long? Besides not

Re: Reaching out to Greg KH for 6 year LTS kernel versions

2022-08-12 Thread Robert Marko
On Fri, 12 Aug 2022 at 19:54, Florian Fainelli wrote: > > On 8/10/22 13:32, Robert Marko wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Aug 2022 at 22:30, Philip Prindeville > > wrote: > >> > >> Not to play the devil's advocate but... do we want old kernels hanging out > >> that long? > >> > >> Besides not encouraging

Re: Reaching out to Greg KH for 6 year LTS kernel versions

2022-08-12 Thread Florian Fainelli
On 8/10/22 13:32, Robert Marko wrote: On Wed, 10 Aug 2022 at 22:30, Philip Prindeville 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

Re: Reaching out to Greg KH for 6 year LTS kernel versions

2022-08-12 Thread Florian Fainelli
On 8/10/22 15:27, Hauke Mehrtens wrote: On 8/9/22 01:15, Florian Fainelli 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

Re: Reaching out to Greg KH for 6 year LTS kernel versions

2022-08-11 Thread Dave Taht
I am not on the openwrt-devel list from this acct... I tried to resubscribe but its taking too long... On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 1:29 PM Philip Prindeville wrote: > > Not to play the devil's advocate but... do we want old kernels hanging out > that long? People are still shipping 3.3 kernels. >

Re: Reaching out to Greg KH for 6 year LTS kernel versions

2022-08-10 Thread Hauke Mehrtens
On 8/9/22 01:15, Florian Fainelli 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,

Re: Reaching out to Greg KH for 6 year LTS kernel versions

2022-08-10 Thread Robert Marko
On Wed, 10 Aug 2022 at 22:30, Philip Prindeville 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

Re: Reaching out to Greg KH for 6 year LTS kernel versions

2022-08-10 Thread Philip Prindeville
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. > On Aug 8, 2022, at 5:15 PM, Florian

Reaching out to Greg KH for 6 year LTS kernel versions

2022-08-08 Thread Florian Fainelli
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