Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753648AbZGYHey (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Jul 2009 03:34:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752647AbZGYHey (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Jul 2009 03:34:54 -0400 Received: from er-systems.de ([85.25.136.202]:43125 "EHLO er-systems.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752596AbZGYHex (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Jul 2009 03:34:53 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 566 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 03:34:53 EDT Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 09:25:21 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Voegtle To: Greg KH cc: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?=C9ric_Piel?= , webmaster@kernel.org, LKML , stable@kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.27.28 In-Reply-To: <20090725033030.GA481@suse.de> Message-ID: References: <20090724222746.GA30562@kroah.com> <4A6A48A1.80608@tremplin-utc.net> <20090725033030.GA481@suse.de> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LNX 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="425052808-535022048-1248506723=:10172" X-Virus-Checker-Version: clamassassin 1.2.4 with clamdscan / ClamAV 0.95.2/9613/Sat Jul 25 02:08:58 2009 signatures . Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1915 Lines: 51 This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --425052808-535022048-1248506723=:10172 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Hi, first of all: thank you for the stable kernels... On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, 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? It even isn't called at linux-kernel-announce, except the latest stable kernel. So you have to read LKML, or follow the lwn.net news to track the older stable kernel. Or always guessing: when there is a release of the newer stable kernel (this is announced in linux-kernel-announce) then there might be a release of the older one aswell... > How many people really are relying on this .27 branch, becides the > distros, these days? And if you are, why? I'm one of that guys, having a server and one firewall and feeling much better with a small optimized own-built kernel for that machines. And both just work with this .27 branch, why should I change it to 2.6.30.y? I don't need any of the new features and it won't be faster with 2.6.30 or something else... Thomas --425052808-535022048-1248506723=:10172-- -- 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/