Which is the point - time until patched in the kernel source tree is a relatively useless metric unless it’s pretty close to when those fixes ship to Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Amazon Linux - whatever the majority of Linux is these days.

Otherwise a fix in Linus’ tree is about as useful as a committed fix to the Windows source repository.

>Otherwise a fix in Linus’ tree is about as useful as a committed fix to the Windows source repository.

I don't see why. Users can manually update their kernels in this case. I don't believe that's an option you'll get with a proprietary OS.

It's a bit more useful, but the breakage has to be seriously impacting my use of the system to roll my own kernel outside of the distro's packaging (the only one I've done is manually applying a fix to a Gentoo kernel and even then I just throw the patch on after the normal stuff).