5.10 LTS Kernel: 2 or 6 years?

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 12:16:50PM -0800, Scott Branden wrote:
> On 2021-02-18 10:36 a.m., Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 07:20:50PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> >> On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 06:53:56PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> >>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 09:21:13AM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> >>>> As a company, we are most likely shooting ourselves in the foot by not
> >>>> having a point of coordination with the Linux Foundation and key people
> >>>> like you, Greg and other participants in the stable kernel.
> >>>
> >>> What does the LF have to do with this?
> >>>
> >>> We are here, on the mailing lists, working with everyone.  Just test the
> >>> -rc releases we make and let us know if they work or not for you, it's
> >>> not a lot of "coordination" needed at all.
> >>>
> >>> Otherwise, if no one is saying that they are going to need these for 6
> >>> years and are willing to use it in their project (i.e. and test it),
> >>> there's no need for us to maintain it for that long, right?
> >>
> >> Greg, please remember I expressed I really need them for slightly more than
> >> 3 years (say 3.5-4) :-) I'm fine with helping a bit more as time permits if
> >> this saves me from having to take over these kernels after you, like in the
> >> past, but I cannot engage on the regularity of my availability.
> > 
> > Ok, great!
> > 
> > That's one person/company saying they can help out (along with what CIP
> > has been stating.)
> > 
> > What about others?  Broadcom started this conversation, odd that they
> > don't seem to want to help out :)
> Greg, I'm sorry but I'm not in a position to provide such a commitment.

Ok, who at Broadcom do I need to talk to to get that type of commitment?

> My original question arose because the 5.10 kernel is declared as 2 years LTS while older LTS kernels are now 6 years.
> One problem this has created is requests to provide silicon support in an older kernel version (for a new project) rather than starting from a newer kernel version that more properly supports the (silicon and non-silicon) features.  

Sounds like your development model is broken, again, who do I need to
talk to in order to help you all fix this?

thanks,

greg k-h