Reaching out to Greg KH for 6 year LTS kernel versions

[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 Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com> 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
> 
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