From: Bradley Chapman <kakadu_croc@yahoo.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@pobox.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Clean up older Kernels
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 12:32:46 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031201203246.99655.qmail@web40907.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
Mr. Garzik,
> > On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 08:40:47PM +0100, Thomas Babut wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > perhaps my question is unusual, but why do you not clean up the older Linux
> > Kernels?
> >
> > The Kernel 2.0.39 is the last stable one, but there is also a 2.0.40-rc6. So
> > why not releasing it as stable 2.0.40 (final)? And Alan Cox isn't active any
> > more for some time and the ac-Patches are very old. They could be removed,
> > or not?
>
> 2.0.x has a maintainer, David Winehall(sp?) IIRC. Poke him... :)
>
> I agree, might as well put out 2.0.40...
I've been wondering about this too, but I was afraid to ask first :-)
When 2.6 is officially released as a stable kernel and 2.4 is relegated to security/
bugfix-only status, what will happen to 2.0 and 2.2? Obviously, they won't be
totally ignored for support reasons (not everyone uses 2.4 - see counter.li.org),
but what will Mr. Anvin do to the frontpage of kernel.org?
Brad
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2003-12-01 20:32 Bradley Chapman [this message]
2003-12-01 20:50 ` Clean up older Kernels Jeff Garzik
2003-12-01 21:20 ` Bradley Chapman
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2003-12-01 19:40 Thomas Babut
2003-12-01 19:49 ` Jeff Garzik
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