From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org (Greg Kroah-Hartman) Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:35:24 -0800 Subject: what's the next LTSI kernel version for long-term support In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20130226033524.GA25067@kroah.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:06:56AM +0800, Barry Song wrote: > Hi Greg/All, > we have seen 3.4 was announced to be an LTSI in Aug, 2012. I'd like to > know what is the next LTSI version since we might want to align our > next release with LTSI. Who is "we" here? > That might help us to plan the release cycle. As I've stated before, I do not announce the long-term kernel ahead of time, we did that once in the past and it was a total mess. I announce it _after_ the kernel is released. I have also stated that 3.8 is NOT going to be a long-term kernel, that would mean I would be handling 3 long-term kernels at once, plus 1-2 "normal" stable kernels. That is a sure way to drive me crazy and burn out. > BTW, how many people and SoC vendors in ARM communicaty want to align > your releases with LTSI? I do not know. There was an LTSI meeting last week at ELC where this was discussed, I suggest you ask the people who attended it. I was there, but it's not up to me to release the meeting minutes, and I wasn't taking notes, sorry. thanks, greg k-h From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759354Ab3BZDei (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:34:38 -0500 Received: from mail-da0-f47.google.com ([209.85.210.47]:50023 "EHLO mail-da0-f47.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758786Ab3BZDed (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:34:33 -0500 Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:35:24 -0800 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, LKML , Binghua Duan Subject: Re: what's the next LTSI kernel version for long-term support Message-ID: <20130226033524.GA25067@kroah.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:06:56AM +0800, Barry Song wrote: > Hi Greg/All, > we have seen 3.4 was announced to be an LTSI in Aug, 2012. I'd like to > know what is the next LTSI version since we might want to align our > next release with LTSI. Who is "we" here? > That might help us to plan the release cycle. As I've stated before, I do not announce the long-term kernel ahead of time, we did that once in the past and it was a total mess. I announce it _after_ the kernel is released. I have also stated that 3.8 is NOT going to be a long-term kernel, that would mean I would be handling 3 long-term kernels at once, plus 1-2 "normal" stable kernels. That is a sure way to drive me crazy and burn out. > BTW, how many people and SoC vendors in ARM communicaty want to align > your releases with LTSI? I do not know. There was an LTSI meeting last week at ELC where this was discussed, I suggest you ask the people who attended it. I was there, but it's not up to me to release the meeting minutes, and I wasn't taking notes, sorry. thanks, greg k-h