On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 03:02:54PM +0800, Hanjun Guo wrote: > On 2021/2/19 17:08, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > 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 :) > > We can trigger the test when you updated the -rc stable git tree, > by monitoring new commits for the stable branches. So if you push > all the commits at once for -rc stable branches, then our CI system > can work well.
I do push to the -rc branches, but those branches are rebased, and I do "intermediate" pushes as well. Meaning I push to have CI systems run on the existing patch queue at times that are not only the "main" -rc release periods. Watch the branches for a few weeks to get an idea of how they work if you are curious. > > 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. > > Thanks, will reply "Tested-by:" with -rc releases. We are working on > setting up the test farm and will report the test results in a week. Great, thanks! greg k-h
