Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:37:41 +0000 | From | Phillip Lougher <> | Subject | Re: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion |
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Jean Delvare wrote: > On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:39:51 +0000, Phillip Lougher wrote: >> Jean Delvare wrote: >>> Prove it. Many people out there are still working on older trees. I am >>> working on 2.6.5 and 2.6.16 kernels on a weekly basis. If ketchup or >>> other tools break for these trees only and not more recent ones, that >>> won't help me at all, I will still have to update them. >> Why are you still working on 2.6.5 and 2.6.16 kernels on a weekly >> basis? > > Because I am doing support for enterprise customers who are using > distributions based on these kernel versions. These are SLE 9 and SLE > 10, to name them, but RHEL supporters are in the same situation. And > I've heard embedded developers report many times that they had to stick > to older 2.6.x kernels too for various reasons. Not everyone is using a > recent 2.6.x kernel, which makes it hard to draw a line between what > should be considered old ones and what should be considered new ones. >
Embedded and enterprise distro users are usually stuck on ancient kernels that were downloaded from kernel.org and patched *years ago*. The reason they're stuck on them is due to local modifications, and so they're not going to be downloading ancient vanilla kernels from kernel.org now.
Phillip
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