From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263205AbTLAUuI (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Dec 2003 15:50:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263364AbTLAUuH (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Dec 2003 15:50:07 -0500 Received: from havoc.gtf.org ([63.247.75.124]:40683 "EHLO havoc.gtf.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263205AbTLAUuE (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Dec 2003 15:50:04 -0500 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 15:50:01 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik To: Bradley Chapman Cc: Jeff Garzik , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Clean up older Kernels Message-ID: <20031201205001.GA14720@gtf.org> References: <20031201203246.99655.qmail@web40907.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031201203246.99655.qmail@web40907.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 12:32:46PM -0800, Bradley Chapman wrote: > 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? I don't see there being any radical change... Alan still puts out 2.2 security fixes occasionally, and the older Linux kernels will _always_ be archived on ftp.kernel.org. They're not going away... :) Jeff