On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 08:28:40PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 02:11:48PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
I think Greg's last estimate was that about 1/3 of the kernels in the wild are custom based on a kernel.org stable kernel, which means that we have no visibility as to what they do with the kernel. If you don't know who your users are, how can you prioritize some subsystems over others?
The numbers I had was 75% of the images a major cloud provider was using was either a kernel.org stable kernel release, or Debian. The remaining 25% was an "enterprise" kernel including CentOS.
Also note that all Android devices are now required to follow the stable kernel releases as well, so add a few more million to that number :)
That being said, for a well-maintained subsystem like Input, whose maintainer almost always marks patches for stable releases, having them picked up by the autobot is unusual. Dmitry, if you want your subsytem to be excluded, just let Sasha know, other subsystems have been excluded at the maintainer's request, and that's fine.
I am hesitant to request to exclude input from autosel just yet, on an account that I might miss something. But I would like autosel to acquire more smarts and be less trigger happy. I think it would be for the best for everyone.
Thanks.