From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:24:43 +0100 (BST) Received: from sorrow.cyrius.com ([65.19.161.204]:33040 "EHLO sorrow.cyrius.com") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20024007AbXFKLYl (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:24:41 +0100 Received: by sorrow.cyrius.com (Postfix, from userid 10) id B2CD2D8D1; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:24:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by deprecation.cyrius.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 62EC0544B2; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:17:08 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:17:08 +0200 From: Martin Michlmayr To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: -stable branches usage Message-ID: <20070611111708.GA12814@deprecation.cyrius.com> References: <20070529130833.GA4334@linux-mips.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070529130833.GA4334@linux-mips.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 15361 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: tbm@cyrius.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips * Ralf Baechle [2007-05-29 14:08]: > It's probably not a surprise when I'm saying that maintaining all > the -stable branches of 2.6.16..2.6.21 for MIPS is a major effort > and increasingly simply a huge pain in the ... you know where due > to the differences. So before I actually deciede when and which of > the branches I'm going to dump I would like to poll who actually > uses these -stable branches. For Debian, the 2.6.18 tree is useful since our stable kernel is based on that release. However, we can only put crucial fixes into a stable release, so I wouldn't expect much to show up on the 2.6.18 branch. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/