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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:36:48 +0800
From: =?utf-8?Q?Am=C3=A9rico?= Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
To: Geoffrey Said <geoffrey@2x.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com
Subject: Re: Long maintenance kernel versions.
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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?


This mainly depends on how many major Linux distributions rely on
that version of kernel, AFAIK.

>Is the version decided before or after the release of the stable kernel?

After.

>And where can I check for planned long term maintenance versions?
>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel