Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934242AbeAITtv (ORCPT + 1 other); Tue, 9 Jan 2018 14:49:51 -0500 Received: from h2.hallyn.com ([78.46.35.8]:34552 "EHLO h2.hallyn.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751760AbeAITtu (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jan 2018 14:49:50 -0500 Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 13:49:48 -0600 From: "Serge E. Hallyn" To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Alice Ferrazzi , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, Guenter Roeck , shuahkh@osg.samsung.com, patches@kernelci.org, Ben Hutchings , lkft-triage@lists.linaro.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.4 00/37] 4.4.110-stable review Message-ID: <20180109194948.GA22698@mail.hallyn.com> References: <20180103195056.837404126@linuxfoundation.org> <20180105180103.GA30379@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180105180103.GA30379@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-Path: Quoting Greg Kroah-Hartman (gregkh@linuxfoundation.org): > On Sat, Jan 06, 2018 at 02:20:16AM +0900, Alice Ferrazzi wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 5:11 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman > > wrote: > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.110 release. > > > There are 37 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response > > > to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please > > > let me know. > > > > > > Responses should be made by Fri Jan 5 19:50:38 UTC 2018. > > > Anything received after that time might be too late. > > > > > > The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: > > > kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.4.110-rc1.gz > > > or in the git tree and branch at: > > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.4.y > > > and the diffstat can be found below. > > > > > > > This patchset merges correctly with Gentoo patches and GCC version 6.4.0 > > The kernel boot up correctly. > > Logs: http://kernel1.amd64.dev.gentoo.org:8010/#/builders/5/builds/44 > > Great, but Gentoo really should be moving to 4.9 and 4.14 here, I > hope no one running Gentoo is relying on 4.4 :) Wait what? According to https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html 4.4 should be the best bet for longest support, right? Does that page need to be updated? If 4.4 is not going to be supported, is there anything else with a possible 5-6 years of support?