linux-kernel - Re: [Ksummit-discuss] bug-introducing patches

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Date:   Tue, 8 May 2018 13:59:18 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Lang <david@...g.hm>
To:     Sasha Levin <Alexander.Levin@...rosoft.com>
cc:     Matthew Wilcox <willy6545@...il.com>,
        "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
        Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "w@....eu" <w@....eu>,
        "ksummit-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org" 
        <ksummit-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] bug-introducing patches

On Tue, 8 May 2018, Sasha Levin wrote:

> There's no one, for example, who picked up vanilla v4.16 and plans to
> keep using it for a year.

Actually, at a prior job I would do almost exactly that.

I never intended to go a year without updating, but it would happen if nothing 
came up that was related to the hardware/features I was running.

so 'no one uses the Linus kernel is false.