linux-kernel - Re: Towards 4.14 LTS

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Message-ID: <7a73bb41-8372-57d3-2aca-6840ca231167@roeck-us.net>
Date:   Sun, 19 Nov 2017 08:09:46 -0800
From:   Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Tom Gall <tom.gall@...aro.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux- stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
        torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, shuahkh@....samsung.com,
        ltp@...ts.linux.it, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Towards 4.14 LTS

On 11/19/2017 03:20 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 10:50:23PM -0600, Tom Gall wrote:
>> At Linaro we’ve been putting effort into regularly running kernel tests over
>> arm, arm64 and x86_64 targets. On those targets we’re running mainline, -next,
>> 4.4, and 4.9 kernels and yes we are adding to this list as the hardware
>> capacity grows.
>>
>> For test buckets we’re using just LTP, kselftest and libhugetlbfs and
>> like kernels we will add to this list.
> 
> I'm sorry, I don't understand this sentance.
> 
My parsing of it is that they will add to the list of tests as well as
to the list of supported kernel versions (and/or maybe architectures ?).

Guenter

>> With the 4.14 cycle being a little ‘different’ in so much as the goal to
>> have it be an LTS kernel I think it’s important to take a look at some
>> 4.14 test results.
>>
>> Grab a beverage, this is a bit of a long post. But quick summery 4.14 as
>> released looks just as good as 4.13, for the test buckets I named above.
> 
> Thanks for doing this testing and letting us know.
> 
> greg k-h
>