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Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 22:48:00 -0700
From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Bryan WU <bryan.wu@analog.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch 00/33] 2.6.20-stable review
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On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 12:21:24PM +0800, Bryan WU wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 08:13 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 06:15:54PM +0800, Wu, Bryan wrote:
> > > 
> > > You know for some customer's product, they want to use the stable and
> > > long term support kernel instead to use the latest one. 
> > 
> > Then they should get that support from a vendor, not from the kernel.org
> > releases :)
> > 
> 
> Yeah, but we are the vendor as you mentioned. -:))

Ah, then you already know what to do :)

> If we wanna to release a kernel to customer product development, how to
> choose the stable version?

That's up to you.

> Currently, we always followed the kernel release cycle/rules and give
> customer the latest stable version.

Ok, then what has really changed here?  We've been doing this .y release
thing (also called -stable) for about 2 years now, nothing is different
this week from last.

Confused,

greg k-h