From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76808C00140 for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2022 03:36:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S235516AbiHHDgq (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Aug 2022 23:36:46 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:38122 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S232427AbiHHDgn (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Aug 2022 23:36:43 -0400 Received: from 1wt.eu (wtarreau.pck.nerim.net [62.212.114.60]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 594715FAF for ; Sun, 7 Aug 2022 20:36:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from willy@localhost) by pcw.home.local (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id 2783ahgC007586; Mon, 8 Aug 2022 05:36:43 +0200 Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2022 05:36:43 +0200 From: Willy Tarreau To: "brookxu.cn@gmail.com" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Choose 5.10 LTS or 5.15 LTS Message-ID: <20220808033643.GB7325@1wt.eu> References: <61ecca29-2d01-af2d-3d18-62dad41c63b4@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <61ecca29-2d01-af2d-3d18-62dad41c63b4@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Aug 08, 2022 at 10:35:19AM +0800, brookxu.cn@gmail.com wrote: > We want to choose an LTS kernel version to use for a few years. As we know, > the 5.10 LTS has a 6 years maintenance period with the help of huawei. But > the 5.15 LTS currently only has a two-year maintenance period, and it may > reach EOL next year. It is currently unclear whether it will be extended. It all depends on what level of effort you're willing to make: - if you really want to just use and not participate at all (i.e. report issues, test pre-releases etc), 5.10 will be more suited. - if you're willing to participate, you can start to encourage others to do so as well in order to convince Greg that he will not be alone in this tedious task and that it's worth extending 5.15. - or if you're willing to invest a little bit of time but don't want to engage too far, you could also take the risk of going for 5.15, hoping that it will be extended, knowing that if it's not, it will be your job to deal with backports (which usually is a real pain and would justify giving back some help on official support instead). > Coupled with the arrival of the 6.0 kernel, I am a little worried that the > maintenance of 5.15 will be reduced. Does anyone have good suggestions, > thank you. That's just numbering, and should in no way affect maintenance of existing code. Hoping this helps, Willy