On 14 February 2017 at 10:48, Greg KH <gregkh@google.com> wrote:

On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 09:43:57AM +0530, Sumit Semwal wrote:
> Now if someone could dig in the ubuntu or fedora or openSUSE kernels,
> that would be useful...
>
> So Arnd and I discussed this yesterday - he is going to dig at openSUSE, while
> I'll be hunting fedora to start with. Based on how many such changes, we will
> add a couple more distros (raspbian, lede-project seem interesting...).

Where are those two project's kernels at?

raspbian seems to be at: https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux,

while lede-project has its entire source at: https://git.lede-project.org/source.git, and then deltas for linux kernel(s) per platform at target/linux. Generic patches applied on top of specific linux versions are in target/linux/generic/patches-XXX.

> Also, one idea I got was to have engineers working with our members CC this
> list on kernel backports that they push to their kernels - would you think
> that'd make any sense?

Why not have them cc: stable@kernel.org? No need to have them send
stuff to this odd one-off list. How about just looking at those kernels
as well? That might be a good place to start.

Yes, of course cc: stable@kernel.org is a better idea.

I'll try and gather whatever member kernels we can lay our hands on. In my past experience though, some kernels might not be 'as open' atleast to begin with. Worth a try still.

thanks,

greg k-h

Best,

~Sumit.