From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759925AbXKFUCy (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Nov 2007 15:02:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759492AbXKFUB2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Nov 2007 15:01:28 -0500 Received: from 1wt.eu ([62.212.114.60]:3742 "EHLO 1wt.eu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759092AbXKFUBZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Nov 2007 15:01:25 -0500 Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 21:00:24 +0100 From: Willy Tarreau To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, stable@kernel.org Subject: Re: Future of Linux 2.6.22.y series Message-ID: <20071106200024.GF1045@1wt.eu> References: <20071105181332.GB28628@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071105181332.GB28628@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 10:13:32AM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > For the last release, I stated that I thought the 2.6.22.12 release > would be the last one in the 2.6.22.y series. Since then, I've received > a number of other patches that would be nice to have in the .22.y tree. > > So, for a while, I'll keep the 2.6.22.y tree open, doing new releases > every once in a while as they accumulate. I do this, for no other than > the selfish reason that I use it every day on my openSuSE 10.3 boxes as > that is the kernel base that release is on :) It certainly is one of the most valuable reasons. If all people were "selfish" enough to contribute what they do only for themselves, we would possibly have less out-of-tree code. > If anyone has any objections or questions about this, please let me > know. Oh no, please keep it going on for as long as you want, I'll rebase my version on it instead of 2.6.20.y ;-) Thanks, Willy