Re: 2.6.14.5 to 2.6.15 patch

[Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>]

On Wednesday 04 January 2006 23:13, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 10:58:24PM +0000, Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> > On Wednesday 04 January 2006 22:31, Greg KH wrote:
> > [snip]
> >
> > > > > The issue I hit was we have a 'latest stable kernel release
> > > > > 2.6.14.5' and under it a 'the latest stable kernel' (or words to
> > > > > that effect) on kernel.org.
> > > > >
> > > > > Then when 2.6.15 came out, that was it!  No patch for the 'latest
> > > > > stable kernel release 2.6.14.5'.  It was GONE!
> > > >
> > > > Yes, I brought this up a couple of weeks ago, but I was told
> > > > that I was wrong (in some such words).
> > > > I agree that it needs to be fixed.
> > >
> > > How would you suggest that it be fixed?
> >
> > It's difficult, but perhaps providing a link to the latest "stable team"
> > release in addition to Linus's release would solve the problem.
>
> But what happens when we release a 2.6.14.y release and a 2.6.15.y
> release at the same time (as people have requested this in previous
> threads...)?  What would show up where?

You're right, it's complicated. In that case I'd still opt for showing 
2.6.15.y, as the vast majority of people manually installing vanilla kernels 
will either be on the latest-ish kernel, or have a clue about what they're 
doing (who doesn't know the ftp URL off by heart now).

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

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