From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752594AbZIICIo (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Sep 2009 22:08:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752432AbZIICIn (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Sep 2009 22:08:43 -0400 Received: from mail-iw0-f204.google.com ([209.85.223.204]:54108 "EHLO mail-iw0-f204.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752401AbZIICIn convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Sep 2009 22:08:43 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=T/nvEIGA8ewjlYSfPy+1TR6hoV3wmQUAi7ch7GIWy4dS7jVNshyskF2rBarNI45usi /uT2eKvmZdyB+5GWN2pCA8Ytm9x9F9SwexwjesEHW2RgTe1Xm5Nzv7aWSXThOePrpgiw GJKSfcGdzmtMAmlKUY7+Z69OwkQlz9P+YqmrM= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20090908230416.GA8283@kroah.com> References: <43e72e890909081230h420c2abi125a6fbfc2777250@mail.gmail.com> <43e72e890909081244m4083a1bcq30cf1306ce566726@mail.gmail.com> <20090908230416.GA8283@kroah.com> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 19:08:25 -0700 Message-ID: <43e72e890909081908p64d243ffpef1d24281b485602@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: 2.6.27 maintenance plans after 2.6.32 is released To: Greg KH Cc: Chris Wright , stable-review@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable-review@linux.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 12:44:23PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> > I was curious if 2.6.27 is planned to be supported after 2.6.32 is >> > released, or will that be dropped in favor for 2.6.28 as the last >> > supported kernel. How does dropping an old kernel for stable >> > maintenance consideration typically work? > > .27 is a "long term" support kernel that I've decided to keep going for > a variety of reasons.  .28 and .29 are currently no longer maintained. Oh good to know, for some reason I expected we'd support 27..HEAD. > So .27 is "special" right now, and seems to be working well.  I keep > revaluating if it's worth keeping going, and so far, it seems like it > is, if for nothing else, personal reasons as I have a few servers based > on it :) > > For .30, we will probably do a few more releases once .31 is out, and > then drop it as well. > > I'm confused as to what .32 has to do with any of this, that's months > away... I meant 31. Thanks for the explanation. Luis