On Mon, 16 Apr 2018 18:17:17 +0000 Sasha Levin Alexander.Levin@microsoft.com wrote:
I thought we agreed that this is bad? We wanted users to be closer to mainline, and we can't do it without bringing -stable closer to mainline as well.
I guess the question comes down to, what do the users of stable kernels want? For my machines, I always stay one or two releases behind mainline. Right now my kernels are on 4.15.x, and will probably jump to 4.16.x the next time I upgrade my machines. I'm fine with something breaking every so often as long as it's not data corruption (although I have lots of backups of my systems in case that happens, just a PITA to fix it). I only hit bugs on these boxes probably once a year at most in doing so. But I mostly do what other kernel developers do and that means the bugs I would mostly hit, other developers hit before their code is released.
Thus, if stable users are fine with being regression compatible with mainline, then I'm fine with it too.
-- Steve