On Fri, 12 Aug 2022 at 19:54, Florian Fainelli <f.faine...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 8/10/22 13:32, Robert Marko wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Aug 2022 at 22:30, Philip Prindeville > > <phil...@redfish-solutions.com> wrote: > >> > >> 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. > > > > I have to agree with this. > > What would be the benefit for OpenWrt with having LTS kernels > > supported for 6 years? > > One aspect I could see is take for instance a device that is widely > popular amongst our user base as was TI's ar7 for instance a while back, > and for which we might have done a Linux 5.4, or 5.10 version at the > time but we do not wish to continue to maintain.
I dont see how this is related to LTS kernel support. > > Being able to continue to deliver stable kernel updates in a stable > OpenWrt branch could be a good way for users to pick up their next xDSL > router since there are not so many out there that can actually run > OpenWrt compared to pure Wired/Wi-Fi for instance. I can agree with this. > > > Backporting stuff is already hard with only 2 LTS versions supported in > > OpenWrt. > > That argument I am sympathetic with, and the sheer amount of out of tree > patches we have in OpenWrt is not helping, in fact it definitively makes > it harder to regularly test, but still somehow we managed to do it. > > Since we will merge stable updates eventually, the point would be that > instead of testing those that are already released, we could try to test > the release candidates and report back anything we find? This is a good idea, not sure how we can do it within OpenWrt though with the amount of patches we have that make it a pain to bump kernels. Regards, Robert > -- > Florian _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
