On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 04:54:24PM +0800, Hanjun Guo wrote: > Hi Greg, > > On 2021/1/26 15:29, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > [...] > > > > I want to see companies _using_ the kernel, and most importantly, > > _updating_ their devices with it, to know if it is worth to keep around > > for longer than 2 years. I also, hopefully, want to see how those > > companies will help me out in the testing and maintenance of that kernel > > version in order to make supporting it for 6 years actually possible. > > > > So, are you planning on using 5.10? Will you will be willing to help > > out in testing the -rc releases I make to let me know if there are any > > problems, and to help in pointing out and backporting any specific > > patches that your platforms need for that kernel release? > > We(Huawei) are willing to commit resources to help out in testing the > stable -rc releases, and to help to backport patches for stable kernels.
Wonderful! > 5.10 stable kernel will be used for openEuler [1] kernel and also inside > Huawei. From customer's feedback, it's very important to see the stable > kernel we used to be maintained for 6 years in the community, and we > will use 5.10 kernel for at least 6 years, so we are willing to help > you and help ourselves :) > > In specific, we will start from the testing work, using HULK robot > (reports lots of bugs to mainline kernel) testing framework to test > compile, reboot, functional testing, and will extend to basic > performance regression testing in the future. Great! Do you all need an email notification when the -rc releases come out for the stable trees, or can you trigger off of the -rc stable git tree? Different CI systems work in different ways :) And if you can reply to the -rc release emails with a "Tested-by:" tag, I will be glad to add that to the release commit when that happens to show that you all have tested the release. > And we will start from ARM64 and X86 architecture first, and then extend > to other platforms. That's a good start, the useful ones :) > For patch backporting, will send the bugfix patches (from mainline) > we spotted, but I think this work may not doing in regular but will > be triggered as needed. That's fine, it is not something that happens at a regular interval. > Does this sound good to you? Yes it does, thank you so much. greg k-h
