Re: [PATCH 6.1 000/207] 6.1.4-rc1 review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 08:34:08PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.1.4 release.
> > There are 207 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> > to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > let me know.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Is it known at this point if 6.1 will became next longterm release? It
> is not listed as such on https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html
> . We might want to do some extra testing if it is.

A kernel can not become "long term" until it would have normally dropped
off of support.  Right now there are known-regressions in 6.1 still that
are not resolved.

And "extra" testing is always good no matter what kernel branch it is
happening for, why not always do it?

thanks,

greg k-h