On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 11:22:46PM +0159, Thomas Backlund wrote:
Den 2018-12-03 kl. 11:22, skrev Sasha Levin:
This is a case where theory collides with the real world. Yes, our QA is lacking, but we don't have the option of not doing the current process. If we stop backporting until a future data where our QA problem is solved we'll end up with what we had before: users stuck on ancient kernels without a way to upgrade.
Sorry, but you seem to be living in a different "real world"...
People stay on "ancient kernels" that "just works" instead of updating to a newer one that "hopefully/maybe/... works"
That's not good as those "ancient kernels" really just are "kernels with lots of known security bugs".
It's your systems, I can't tell you what to do, but I will tell you that running older, unfixed kernels, is a known liability.
Good luck!
greg k-h