From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from wtarreau.pck.nerim.net ([62.212.114.60]:49903 "EHLO 1wt.eu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751491AbdFGRhP (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jun 2017 13:37:15 -0400 Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 19:37:04 +0200 From: Willy Tarreau To: Christoph Biedl Cc: Greg KH , stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 3.18.56 Message-ID: <20170607173704.GD11349@1wt.eu> References: <20170607161219.GA9172@kroah.com> <1496855894@msgid.manchmal.in-ulm.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1496855894@msgid.manchmal.in-ulm.de> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 07:20:32PM +0200, Christoph Biedl wrote: > Greg KH wrote... > > > I'm announcing the release of the 3.18.56 kernel. > > Just a small observation, 3.18 is listed as "EOL" on > https://www.kernel.org/, and in that RSS feed as well. Perhaps untag > that one as long as you actually provide updates? Better keep it marked EOL so that it remains dissuasive enough. Greg inherited from that kernel which he didn't choose to tag LTS and it got used and deployed to a point where not fixing it leaves many users at risk. Hopefully he'll be able to kill it without prior public warning, so EOL seems to make sense here. Willy