Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751179AbZGYETb (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:19:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750817AbZGYETb (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:19:31 -0400 Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:40743 "EHLO out1.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750741AbZGYETa (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:19:30 -0400 Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:18:56 +1000 From: Bron Gondwana To: Greg KH Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=C9ric?= Piel , webmaster@kernel.org, LKML , stable@kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.27.28 Message-ID: <20090725041856.GA21123@brong.net> References: <20090724222746.GA30562@kroah.com> <4A6A48A1.80608@tremplin-utc.net> <20090725033030.GA481@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20090725033030.GA481@suse.de> Organization: brong.net User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2004 Lines: 41 On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 08:30:30PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 01:49:53AM +0200, ?ric Piel wrote: > > Currently, there is no clue on www.kernel.org that 2.6.27 is a "long > > term stable" kernel tree. Would it be possible to add a line to the page > > pointing to the latest version of this type of tree? I'm sure some > > people would love discovering that such thing exists :-) > > I'm curious as to why someone, if they were inclined to be using such a > thing, wouldn't already know about this? > > How many people really are relying on this .27 branch, becides the > distros, these days? And if you are, why? We had some instability with .29, and it was annoying enough that I've "standardised" on 2.6.27.25 across all the new installs of our servers (largely because that was current back when I build those packages a couple of weeks ago) - and since I'm reinstalling everything with the shiny new Debian Lenny personality, we're running .27 on most of our servers now. I'm a little cautious about .30 because of the reiserfs changes that went in. All our customer data is on reiserfs partitions, and I want to take it nice and slow testing it... Er, that about covers it I think. We'll probably jump to .30 or .31 at some point. Oh, yeah. Bloody ipssend. If anyone from IBM is reading this, can you please hit your software distribution people over the head with a big fat cluebat and provide your raid management tools as a single download somewhere that's not a self extracting windows executable floppy image or a .iso containing a self extracting windows executable floppy image, or... you get the picture. It's a disgrace. And while you're at it, build an ipssend that works with kernels 2.6.28+. Thanks. Bron. -- 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/