From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754512AbYJNULH (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:11:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752365AbYJNUKz (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:10:55 -0400 Received: from caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca ([129.97.134.17]:51860 "EHLO caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751532AbYJNUKz (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:10:55 -0400 Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:10:54 -0400 To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Am??rico Wang , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , stable@kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.27 will be a longtime supported kernel Message-ID: <20081014201054.GD22851@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> References: <20081011210340.GA11198@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi> <20081013112701.GA12706@hack.voiplan.pt> <20081013123705.GF29938@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081013123705.GF29938@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 03:37:05PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > If the question is why it isn't .26 or .28: > > I'm checking whether my computer works fine with a kernel, and also > very slightly what distributions might use a kernel, but in the end > it's pretty random. So any distributions using .27 by the looks of it? It looks like Debian is going with .26 for the 5.0 release, so if nothing else they will have to be maintaining that one for quite a while. I suppose having someone maintain .27 makes sense in that case. -- Len Sorensen