From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755314Ab0IXJZB (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Sep 2010 05:25:01 -0400 Received: from mail-pz0-f46.google.com ([209.85.210.46]:64292 "EHLO mail-pz0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755065Ab0IXJY7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Sep 2010 05:24:59 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=HgnqN6Of6hgwWIQEGsqU+C0zmu9q3AGz37LX0ABCo/DSmnbRFhkfwC7G1XGr4TZb+X 80CNjJ77qCRwTzsFG/ag8F1ebyWTnXwKOuZc2vRZN6i1GYV1y5ptsK/3uB+B3S3GeQWq ttzJxP5MSHvb/tRtf+ygDgJ9HAVoTBuU0RLUE= Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:29:29 +0800 From: =?utf-8?Q?Am=C3=A9rico?= Wang To: Geoffrey Said Cc: =?utf-8?Q?Am=C3=A9rico?= Wang , stable@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com Subject: Re: Long maintenance kernel versions. Message-ID: <20100924092929.GC5453@cr0.nay.redhat.com> References: <20100924053648.GA5453@cr0.nay.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 07:42:50AM +0200, Geoffrey Said wrote: >Thanks for the prompt reply, > >but this puts us at a disadvantage as we will not know which kernel >will be long term supported when starting the development process. > That is true, unfortunately. >Take our case for the 34 kernel. I knew that SuSE were going to use >the 34 kernel in their 11.3 and since it was the latest we started >work on the integration. Now after the work is almost over, we hear >that it will not be maintained anymore and we need to move to 35. I >do not think that this is a good system for people like us which have >limited resources at their disposal. > Why not just pick .32? And backport features from 34 to 32. That should not be hard. >Can I suggest that their is a road map and long term maintenance >kernels are ear marked before hand by the major Linux distributions? >This will enable us to wait and integrate kernels fully confident that >they will be long term supported. > I think Greg is the right person to answer this question. :) Thanks!