Re: [stable] [ANNOUNCE] Linux 2.6.35.10 has been released

Willy Tarreau
2010-12-19T16:57:07Z

On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 08:39:35AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 11:36:10AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 04:21:46PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > Could you please update this tree:
> > > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.35.y.git ?
> > >
> > > No, the "stable" trees are not being updated anymore, they have moved to
> > > the longterm git directory instead.
> >
> > It would be good if the old stable git tree for 2.6.35 was deleted to avoid
> > confusion. Greg, what do you think?
>
> No, we have never deleted any of the other trees when we "stopped"
> maintaining them, so we shouldn't delete these either.
>
> I need to look this week at using git notes to mark trees as unsupported
> or supported in a way that will work well. That should solve this issue
> as the note could also say 'go look at the longterm kernel' as well.

Once again, I think it's not too late to replace the old trees with a
symlink to the new one (or the opposite), considering that users have
not updated their scripts yet. Also I'm realizing it's a bit bothering
as a user to have to change the address of the remote when tracking such
a branch.

Regards,
Willy