Re: 2.6.27 maintenance plans after 2.6.32 is released

Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-09-09T02:08:44Z

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  .28 and .29 are currently no longer maintained.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