On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 3:29 PM, Bruce Richardson < bruce.richard...@intel.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 04:21:32PM -0400, Neil Horman wrote: > > Can anyone point out to me when and where the change to require SSE4.2 > was > > dicussed? The first I saw of it was when the commit to the release > notes went > > in on August 3, and I can find no prior mention of it, save for the > patches that > > went in separately in the prior weeks. > > > > Neil > > > There was no real widespread discussion of it, if that's what you are > looking for. I made the proposal via patch, and it was reviewed and > acked by a number of folks, with nobody raising any objections at the > time. Possibly it was a change that should have been more widely > publicised ahead of time, but I'm not sure what form that publicization > should have taken, since all tech discussion happens on the dev mailing > list anyway. > Not that I'm planning any similar changes, but for the future, what do > you think the process for changes like this should be - and what changes > would classify for it? If we have a process problem, let's try and fix > it. > > Regards, > /Bruce. > I'd suggest removing support for any hardware (CPUs or NICs) should require a much "louder" announcement. This particular one didn't hit my company, but when you have hardware out in the field that you are expected to provide on-going software updates for, these sort of changes are painful. The LTS tree helps considerably with this, but definitely deserves more publicity than usual. $0.02 Jay
