[ANNOUNCE][UNOFFICIAL] 2.6.33.8

[ANNOUNCE][UNOFFICIAL] 2.6.33.8

[John Kacur]

There are no longer any official 2.6.33 stable releases after 2.6.33.7
However, 2.6.33.y is the basis for the real-time kernel.
So, I went through the changes from 2.6.32.17->2.6.32.18
and from 2.6.34.2->2.6.34.3
and cherry picked the ones that I thought applied to 2.6.33.7 in order
to create my own unofficial stable update 2.6.33.8

Testing has been very limited, just make allyesconfig and
allmodconfig, and then booting on my personal machine,
so use with caution. However, I am happy to share my results with
anyone who is interested.

You can pull the git tree here.
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jkacur/jk-2.6.git
branch: stable/linux-2.6.33.y

I will continue to do this as long as it is still useful for -rt, and
share the results with everyone.

Thanks

Re: [ANNOUNCE][UNOFFICIAL] 2.6.33.8

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 04:58:13PM +0200, John Kacur wrote:
> There are no longer any official 2.6.33 stable releases after 2.6.33.7
> However, 2.6.33.y is the basis for the real-time kernel.

Why is the -rt kernel sticking with this older version?  Any specific
reason to not move to .34 or at the least, .35?

thanks,

greg k-h

Re: [ANNOUNCE][UNOFFICIAL] 2.6.33.8

[John Kacur]

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 04:58:13PM +0200, John Kacur wrote:
>> There are no longer any official 2.6.33 stable releases after 2.6.33.7
>> However, 2.6.33.y is the basis for the real-time kernel.
>
> Why is the -rt kernel sticking with this older version?  Any specific
> reason to not move to .34 or at the least, .35?
>

Nope, just lack of manpower. We need to stabilize on a version, so we've been
working with .33. At some point, we'll move to the latest. We've been
skipping every
other kernel, but not by design, just chance.