Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753375AbYJLHBu (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:01:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750988AbYJLHBm (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:01:42 -0400 Received: from 1wt.eu ([62.212.114.60]:4720 "EHLO 1wt.eu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750943AbYJLHBm (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:01:42 -0400 Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 09:00:45 +0200 From: Willy Tarreau To: Greg KH Cc: Adrian Bunk , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , stable@kernel.org Subject: Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.27 will be a longtime supported kernel Message-ID: <20081012070044.GM24654@1wt.eu> References: <20081011210340.GA11198@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi> <20081012040223.GC18221@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081012040223.GC18221@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1677 Lines: 40 On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 09:02:23PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 12:03:40AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > 2.6.16 has become a bit dated, and I'll maintain 2.6.27 for a few years > > as a replacement. > > Hm, you're not the only one going to be doing this, there are at least > three distros basing their latest releases on this kernel :) Oh that's good news as it will give it more exposure and bugs will be found and fixed faster. Having 2.6.25 in opensuse may have contributed to its stability. > > As with 2.6.16, I'll pickup maintainance when the normal -stable > > maintainance ends (at some point after 2.6.28 gets released in January). > > I was considering hanging on to .27 for a while longer than the .28 > release, much like .25 has been working out. BTW, how long to you think you'll keep pushing fixes for .25 ? It's been working really well and might have been the most reliable 2.6 I've seen, 2.6.16 aside. I'll keep using it waiting for 2.6.27 to settle down a bit. > Hey, I personally liked it as it made maintaining SLES a lot easier, > thanks a lot for your work there! Not only there, but everywhere you need to embed a 2.6 without too many features and without an easy ability to upgrade it, 2.6.16 has been a good choice. Thanks to you guys for the time you spend maintaining stable releases! I really hope that 2.6.27 will be a viable replacement for 2.4 in the long term. Willy -- 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/