Subject: Re: 2.6.10-as1
From: Andres Salomon <dilinger@voxel.net>
To: Frank Steiner <fsteiner-mail@bio.ifi.lmu.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:26:00 -0500
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On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 11:09 +0100, Frank Steiner wrote:
> Andres Salomon wrote
>=20
> > Hi,
> >=20
> > I'm announcing a new kernel tree; -as.  The goal of this tree is to for=
m
> > a stable base for vendors/distributors to use for their kernels.  In
> > order to do this, I intend to include only security fixes and obvious
> > bugfixes, from various sources.  I do not intend to include driver
> > updates, large subsystem fixes, cleanups, and so on.  Basically, this i=
s
> > what I'd want 2.6.10.1 to contain.
>=20
> Very nice idea! Not only for distributors! Thanks for doing this!
> Do you plan to maintain -as only for the latest release, i.e., will
> 2.6.10-as still be maintained with security fixes even when 2.6.11-as
> comes up?
>=20

My plan is to include security fixes for a kernel or two behind what is
the latest.  Currently, I'm supporting (for Debian) 2.6.8 through
2.6.10.  Of course, normally I wouldn't support 2.6.8 for this long, but
since sarge will (hopefully?) be releasing someday, and this is the
kernel chosen for it, I must continue support.

I do not plan to continue small bugfixes for older kernels too much
longer after a new kernel is released; however, if people were to feed
me patches for older kernels, I'd be more than happy to do releases.


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Andres Salomon <dilinger@voxel.net>

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