On Sun, Jul 10, 2022 at 12:44:34PM +0200, Alexander Grund wrote:
Please just send them to us in patch form like all other stable submissions.
Sorry I'm new to this kernel list. I'll send 1 patch of this series in a new mail (as a test). Please bear with me if there are any mistakes, the next ones will then be better.
As my bot says, this is all documented:
<formletter>
This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the stable kernel tree. Please read: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html for how to do this properly.
</formletter>
Make sure the patches you are submitting follows those rules on what is able to be accepted.
The Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) e.g. maintains LTS kernel trees which are now End of Life but still used. They call that SLTS ("Super Long Term Support") and there is e.g. a 4.4.y branch with backports from the 4.9.y LTS branch. That kernel is e.g. used in many Android phones.
What 4.4.y Android devices are still supported by their vendors? And are they still getting kernel updates?
thanks,
greg k-h