From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752845AbZIHXGM (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Sep 2009 19:06:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752553AbZIHXGL (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Sep 2009 19:06:11 -0400 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:59003 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752549AbZIHXGK (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Sep 2009 19:06:10 -0400 Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 16:04:16 -0700 From: Greg KH To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: Chris Wright , stable-review@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable-review@linux.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.27 maintenance plans after 2.6.32 is released Message-ID: <20090908230416.GA8283@kroah.com> References: <43e72e890909081230h420c2abi125a6fbfc2777250@mail.gmail.com> <43e72e890909081244m4083a1bcq30cf1306ce566726@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43e72e890909081244m4083a1bcq30cf1306ce566726@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 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 .28 and .29 are currently no longer maintained.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