2.6.27 maintenance plans after 2.6.32 is released

2.6.27 maintenance plans after 2.6.32 is released

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

I was curious if 2.6.27 is planned to be supported after 2.6.32 is
released, or will that be dropped in favor for 2.6.28 as the last
supported kernel. How does dropping an old kernel for stable
maintenance consideration typically work?

  Luis

Re: 2.6.27 maintenance plans after 2.6.32 is released

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez<mcgrof@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was curious if 2.6.27 is planned to be supported after 2.6.32 is
> released, or will that be dropped in favor for 2.6.28 as the last
> supported kernel. How does dropping an old kernel for stable
> maintenance consideration typically work?

Adding the stable-review@linux.kernel.org list now, seems
stable-review@kernel.org is an alias.

  Luis

Re: 2.6.27 maintenance plans after 2.6.32 is released

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 12:44:23PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez<mcgrof@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I was curious if 2.6.27 is planned to be supported after 2.6.32 is
> > released, or will that be dropped in favor for 2.6.28 as the last
> > supported kernel. How does dropping an old kernel for stable
> > maintenance consideration typically work?

.27 is a "long term" support kernel that I've decided to keep going for
a variety of reasons.  .28 and .29 are currently no longer maintained.

So .27 is "special" right now, and seems to be working well.  I keep
revaluating if it's worth keeping going, and so far, it seems like it
is, if for nothing else, personal reasons as I have a few servers based
on it :)

For .30, we will probably do a few more releases once .31 is out, and
then drop it as well.

I'm confused as to what .32 has to do with any of this, that's months
away...

thanks,

greg k-h

Re: 2.6.27 maintenance plans after 2.6.32 is released

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Greg KH<greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 12:44:23PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez<mcgrof@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I was curious if 2.6.27 is planned to be supported after 2.6.32 is
>> > released, or will that be dropped in favor for 2.6.28 as the last
>> > supported kernel. How does dropping an old kernel for stable
>> > maintenance consideration typically work?
>
> .27 is a "long term" support kernel that I've decided to keep going for
> a variety of reasons.  .28 and .29 are currently no longer maintained.

Oh good to know, for some reason I expected we'd support 27..HEAD.

> So .27 is "special" right now, and seems to be working well.  I keep
> revaluating if it's worth keeping going, and so far, it seems like it
> is, if for nothing else, personal reasons as I have a few servers based
> on it :)
>
> For .30, we will probably do a few more releases once .31 is out, and
> then drop it as well.
>
> I'm confused as to what .32 has to do with any of this, that's months
> away...

I meant 31. Thanks for the explanation.

  Luis