Reaching out to Greg KH for 6 year LTS kernel versions

[Hauke Mehrtens]

On 8/9/22 01:15, Florian Fainelli 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/

Hi Florian,

I saw that you are often testing the stable rc version, this is really 
great. Someone could try to automate this in OpenWrt to automatically 
test the stable RC kernel versions, but it probably still needs some 
maintenance. Currently I do not see that we have the resources to do this.

I do not think OpenWrt needs 6 LTS years kernel support 3 to 4 years is 
fine for OpenWrt. If we do the 22.03 stable release in the next week we 
can declare 21.02 end of life by end of February 2023. We would have 
used kernel 5.4 only a bit over 3 years after its initial release is 
November 2019.

If you want to volunteer to help Greg KH more on this it would still be 
nice.

Hauke