Re: [RFC PATCH 0/8] staging: erofs: decompression inplace approach

From: Gao Xiang
Date: Mon Jun 17 2019 - 21:52:23 EST




On 2019/6/18 4:36, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 02:16:11AM +0800, Gao Xiang wrote:
>> At last, this is RFC patch v1, which means it is not suitable for
>> merging soon... I'm still working on it, testing its stability
>> these days and hope these patches get merged for 5.3 LTS
>> (if 5.3 is a LTS version).
>
> Why would 5.3 be a LTS kernel?
>
> curious as to how you came up with that :)

My personal thought is about one LTS kernel one year...
Usually 5 versions after the previous kernel...(4.4 -> 4.9 -> 4.14 -> 4.19),
which is not suitable for all historical LTSs...just prepare for 5.3...

Thanks,
Gao Xiang

>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>