Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:30:52 +0200 | Subject | Re: Long maintenance kernel versions. | From | Geoffrey Said <> |
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Thanks for the info. Unfortunately I missed the .32 announcement as I am not always working on kernel integration.
Are there any future planned versions for long term maintenance, like say the .36?
Thanks again.
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 07:10:09AM +0200, Geoffrey Said wrote: >> To whom it may concern. >> >> I would like to put forward the following questions. Hope that I am >> not making a fool of myself! >> >> How is the procedure by which a certain kernel version is declared as >> a long maintenance version? > > There really isn't a set procedure yet. > >> Is the version decided before or after the release of the stable kernel? > > Sometimes after, sometimes before. > >> And where can I check for planned long term maintenance versions? > > You can ask. > > Here's how the last 3 "long-term" releases came about: > .16 - turned out that my employeer was using it for an enterprise > kernel release, so it made my "day job" a lot easier to keep it > going for a longer-than-normal period of time. People liked > this, so it kept going. > .27 - Same as before. > .32 - Now things got interesting. Some kernel developers who "worked" > for different distros got together and talked about picking a > release that their distros could sync up on and become a > long-term released kernel. That ended up being the .32 kernel > and we planned it ahead of time. This resulted in all of the > major distros relying on this kernel for their releases. > > And that's it. Pretty simple, but effective. > >> I am asking the above questions because we are migrating our Linux OS >> to the 2.6.34 kernel and we have learned that this will not be >> actively maintained and we are advised to switch to the 35 one. >> Since a lot of effort has been put to migrate to the 2.6.34 kernel and >> a lot of testing has been done, it is frustrating to hear the above >> news. > > You can always ask me ahead of time what is going on with this type of > thing, that's the best way. I am easy to get ahold of if you have > questions like this. > >> From our point of view it would be nice to declare a version log term >> maintenance before or at least on release so that we can migrate >> between long-term kernels. > > For .32, I did announce this ahead of time, perhaps you missed that. > > Hope this helps, > > greg k-h >
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