Reaching out to Greg KH for 6 year LTS kernel versions

[Robert Marko]

On Wed, 10 Aug 2022 at 22:30, Philip Prindeville
<philipp at 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?
Backporting stuff is already hard with only 2 LTS versions supported in OpenWrt.

Regards,
Robert
>
>
> > On Aug 8, 2022, at 5:15 PM, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Greg KH has communicated a few times before on his blog [1] that he is seeking the help of individuals and company to help him maintain the LTS kernels and allow them to be made 6 years instead of just the usual 2 years.
> >
> > 5.10 is a 6 year LTS, but 5.15 is not listed as such, although it certainly would make sense for it to be since we use 5.15 in OpenWrt.
> >
> > It would be good for the project to have a designated contact who can communicate the kernel version plan ahead of time, or once a LTS is picked up, we could sign up people to do regular testing of the stable release candidates?
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > [1]: http://kroah.com/log/blog/2021/02/03/helping-out-with-lts-kernel-releases/
> > --
> > Florian
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