On 04/01/20 11:09, Rolf Eike Beer wrote: > Am Freitag, 3. Januar 2020, 11:00:14 CET schrieb Rolf Eike Beer: >> Am Freitag, 3. Januar 2020, 03:40:35 CET schrieb Aaron Bauman: >>> On January 2, 2020 6:35:08 PM EST, Rolf Eike Beer wrote: >>>> Am Freitag, 3. Januar 2020, 00:25:06 CET schrieb Mike Pagano: >>>>> hppa is making us keep old kernels around [1]. Should the kernel team >>>>> be >>>>> doing more to get your attention then CC'ing hppa on all of the kernel >>>>> STABLEREQ bugs [2]? >>>> I only run vanilla-sources since there are still lot of cache >>>> corruption >>>> problems in hppa kernels, or whatever makes them flaky. >>>> >>>> Linux pioneer 5.4.6-parisc64 #1 SMP Fri Dec 27 10:23:09 CET 2019 parisc64 >>>> PA8800 (Mako) 9000/785/C8000 GNU/Linux >>>> Linux voyager 5.4.6-parisc #1 Fri Dec 27 15:46:43 CET 2019 parisc PA8600 >>>> (PCX-W+) 9000/785/C3600 GNU/Linux >>>> >>>> So _I_ personally would say just drop old kernels, but that is in no >>>> way >>>> authorative. >>> Ugh. gentoo-sources is just a patch (trivial) on top of vanilla-kernel >>> sources of each stable and LTS version. >> If it's just that I could test them, but this still be no LTS version that I >> would look at. > So, do you want me to stable a random gentoo-sources (usually the most recent > one) every few weeks when I just happen to upgrade my machine? > > Eike I don't think that works very well with kernel/security-team stabilisation policies, sadly. Is there any possibility you would be able to do a stabilisation run, and do a reboot cycle on one LTS branch (of choice, eg. most recent) and then revert to your preferred kernel afterwards? I appreciate this is a rather onerous process on older hardware, but just trying to think of some form of semi-compromise that prevents potential de-keywording, without also suggesting that something that genuinely has issues is either (1) working or (2) supported, if so. I believe Whissi is leading kernel stabilisation requests, on behalf of security- and kernel- teams, so maybe a chat with him may be fruitful. Cheers, veremitz/Michael.