From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761571AbXHEJMr (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Aug 2007 05:12:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751655AbXHEJMi (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Aug 2007 05:12:38 -0400 Received: from 1wt.eu ([62.212.114.60]:1149 "EHLO 1wt.eu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751147AbXHEJMh (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Aug 2007 05:12:37 -0400 Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 11:11:31 +0200 From: Willy Tarreau To: Xose Vazquez Perez Cc: m.c.p@kernel.linux-systeme.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: what's about 2.2 kernel? Message-ID: <20070805091131.GD6002@1wt.eu> References: <46B58D50.8090301@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46B58D50.8090301@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 10:41:52AM +0200, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote: > hi, > > time to release a final 2.2.27 and close the > 2.2 tree ??? > > > The latest 2.2 version : 2.2.26 2004-02-25 00:28 UTC > The latest prepatch 2.2 : 2.2.27-rc2 2005-01-12 23:55 UTC No, I think it would dupe users into thinking that 2.2.27 is up to date, while it would have missed a lot of security fixes. At least in the current situation, people tend not to trust it. It's rather sad that it ended that way, I've been happily putting it everywhere for a long time when I was telling everyone that 2.4 was an unreliable crap. I hope I will never set the same fate to 2.4 :-/ If you're looking for updates for 2.2, you should take a look at OWL and PAX patches, both of those tend to include many security fixes, maybe they're still up to date, but I would doubt about that now. > -- > Politicos de mierda, yo no soy un terrorista. BTW, it would be kind if you could avoid gratuitous bad words in your sig. While LKML has a language of its own, it serves no useful purpose to raise the bar that way. Thanks, Willy