Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:06:56 -0700 (PDT) | From | david@lang ... | Subject | Re: Future of the -longterm kernel releases (i.e. how we pick them). |
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On Mon, 15 Aug 2011, J?rg-Volker Peetz wrote:
> Greg KH wrote, on 08/15/11 06:15: > <snip> >> >> - a new -longterm kernel is picked every year. >> - a -longterm kernel is maintained for 2 years and then dropped. > <snip> > > Just a little nitpick: with this scheme you will accumulate longterm kernels. If > I understand it right, one longterm kernel is added every year.
but with one new kernel being added each year, and then being dropped two years later, there are only 2 long term kernels at any one time (that Greg will be maintaining at least, nothing stops other people from maintaining other long term kernels in addition)
David Lang
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