On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 07:20:50PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 06:53:56PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 09:21:13AM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote: > > > As a company, we are most likely shooting ourselves in the foot by not > > > having a point of coordination with the Linux Foundation and key people > > > like you, Greg and other participants in the stable kernel. > > > > What does the LF have to do with this? > > > > We are here, on the mailing lists, working with everyone. Just test the > > -rc releases we make and let us know if they work or not for you, it's > > not a lot of "coordination" needed at all. > > > > Otherwise, if no one is saying that they are going to need these for 6 > > years and are willing to use it in their project (i.e. and test it), > > there's no need for us to maintain it for that long, right? > > Greg, please remember I expressed I really need them for slightly more than > 3 years (say 3.5-4) :-) I'm fine with helping a bit more as time permits if > this saves me from having to take over these kernels after you, like in the > past, but I cannot engage on the regularity of my availability.
Ok, great! That's one person/company saying they can help out (along with what CIP has been stating.) What about others? Broadcom started this conversation, odd that they don't seem to want to help out :) thanks, greg k-h
