[LTP] Oldest still supported kernel
xuyang
xuyang2018.jy@cn.fujitsu.com
Thu May 16 13:09:42 CEST 2019
Hi
>
> On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 5:07 PM Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz
> <mailto:chrubis@suse.cz>> wrote:
>
> Hi!
> > > Is it the oldest version we want to support or even something
> older?
> >
> > I'd like minimum to be at least 3.10.0 / glibc-2.17 (RHEL7).
>
>
> This minimum looks good to me.
>
> >
> > Older distros use LTP mostly for regression tests, so it might
> be acceptable
> > for users to switch to older release tag, rather than always
> latest master.
>
>
> I think so. To switch to older release is a better option in that
> situation.
>
> >
> > There's also an option, we create a "legacy" branch for old distros,
> > and accept only critical fixes (no new tests, rewrites, etc.).
> It would
> > be unsupported, but provide place where legacy users can cooperate.
>
> I was trying to avoid having several active branches for LTP for
> several
> reasons. Mainly to avoid people running old LTP on reasonably modern
> kernels because they were under an impression that older release
> is more
> stable. Hence I would like to avoid having this if possible.
>
>
> Yes, to maintain an old LTP branch will also cost more energy, I agree
> to avoid do that too.
>
> But one more question, if a person posts a patch to fix an older issue
> which conflicts with the new kernel stuff, what should we do for that?
In this situation, I think new kernel stuff has a higher priority if
older issue is not very serious.
For Oldest supported , I don't think we must specify a kernel or glibc
oldest version.
Kind Regards
Yang Xu
>
> --
> Regards,
> Li Wang
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