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From:   Kaiwan N Billimoria <kaiwan.billimoria@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 20 Dec 2022 07:15:56 +0530
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Subject: Re: Reg the next LTS kernel (6.1?)
To:     Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc:     Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 10:11 PM Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 07:14:14PM +0530, Kaiwan N Billimoria wrote:
> > :-) Got it.
> > Taking your point into account, I'll rephrase: as the _convention_ is
> > to mark the last release in the year as LTS, is there any visibility
> > on when, or if, it comes about?
>
> What Greg tried to explain to you is that the convention is to pick a
> sufficiently well tested kernel to make sure its maintenance will not
> become a huge burden, and that it cannot be a single-person effort,
> testers are needed during that period. As such companies and/or users
> engaging in investing some resources for testing are extremely
> important and if some have a good reason to prefer investing that time
> on a different kernel, their choice will count more than just a kind
> request on the mailing list. Now you know how to make your voice count
> if you want/need 6.1 to become LTS.
>
Willy, Greg K-H, thanks for your guidance,
Kaiwan.
> Regards,
> Willy