Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750703AbWADX2O (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jan 2006 18:28:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750704AbWADX2O (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jan 2006 18:28:14 -0500 Received: from mail.metronet.co.uk ([213.162.97.75]:29400 "EHLO mail.metronet.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750703AbWADX2N (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jan 2006 18:28:13 -0500 From: Alistair John Strachan To: Greg KH Subject: Re: 2.6.14.5 to 2.6.15 patch Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 23:28:15 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9 Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" , Nick Warne , Jesper Juhl , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, webmaster@kernel.org References: <200601041710.37648.nick@linicks.net> <200601042258.24888.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <20060104231330.GD14788@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20060104231330.GD14788@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200601042328.15528.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1771 Lines: 42 On Wednesday 04 January 2006 23:13, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 10:58:24PM +0000, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > > On Wednesday 04 January 2006 22:31, Greg KH wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > > > The issue I hit was we have a 'latest stable kernel release > > > > > 2.6.14.5' and under it a 'the latest stable kernel' (or words to > > > > > that effect) on kernel.org. > > > > > > > > > > Then when 2.6.15 came out, that was it! No patch for the 'latest > > > > > stable kernel release 2.6.14.5'. It was GONE! > > > > > > > > Yes, I brought this up a couple of weeks ago, but I was told > > > > that I was wrong (in some such words). > > > > I agree that it needs to be fixed. > > > > > > How would you suggest that it be fixed? > > > > It's difficult, but perhaps providing a link to the latest "stable team" > > release in addition to Linus's release would solve the problem. > > But what happens when we release a 2.6.14.y release and a 2.6.15.y > release at the same time (as people have requested this in previous > threads...)? What would show up where? You're right, it's complicated. In that case I'd still opt for showing 2.6.15.y, as the vast majority of people manually installing vanilla kernels will either be on the latest-ish kernel, or have a clue about what they're doing (who doesn't know the ftp URL off by heart now). -- Cheers, Alistair. 'No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway.' Third year Computer Science undergraduate. 1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/