Re: Linux 3.9.10

[mark gross <markgross@thegnar.org>]

On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 11:54:17AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> I'm announcing the release of the 3.9.10 kernel.
> 
> Note, this might just be the last 3.9-stable kernel release, I'm not
> quite sure I can guarantee another 3.9-stable kernel will be released.

I guess this means 3.9 will NOT be this years LTS kernel.  yes?¬         
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Do you think its safe to assume 3.10 will be the LTS for 2013?¬          
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thank!

--mark

> Please move to the 3.10-stable series at this point in time.  If that
> isn't working for you, please let us know NOW!
> 
> All users of the 3.9 kernel series must upgrade.
> 
> The updated 3.9.y git tree can be found at:
> 	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-3.9.y
> and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser:
> 	http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=summary
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
> 
> ------------
> 
>  MAINTAINERS                        |    1 +
>  Makefile                           |    2 +-
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c                 |   11 +++++++++--
>  block/genhd.c                      |    2 +-
>  crypto/algapi.c                    |    3 ++-
>  drivers/block/nbd.c                |    3 ++-
>  drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c              |    2 +-
>  drivers/power/charger-manager.c    |    2 +-
>  drivers/scsi/osd/osd_uld.c         |    2 +-
>  drivers/scsi/sd.c                  |    2 +-
>  drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c |    4 ----
>  fs/ceph/xattr.c                    |    9 +++++----
>  fs/hpfs/map.c                      |    3 ++-
>  fs/hpfs/super.c                    |    8 +++++++-
>  fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c                  |    2 +-
>  include/linux/hugetlb.h            |   16 ++++++++++++++++
>  kernel/futex.c                     |    3 ++-
>  kernel/module.c                    |   34 ++++++++++++++++++----------------
>  mm/hugetlb.c                       |   17 +++++++++++++++++
>  mm/memcontrol.c                    |    2 --
>  net/ceph/auth_none.c               |    6 ++++++
>  21 files changed, 94 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
> 
> Ben Hutchings (1):
>       SCSI: sd: Fix parsing of 'temporary ' cache mode prefix
> 
> Gleb Natapov (1):
>       KVM: VMX: mark unusable segment as nonpresent
> 
> Greg Kroah-Hartman (3):
>       MAINTAINERS: add stable_kernel_rules.txt to stable maintainer information
>       Revert "serial: 8250_pci: add support for another kind of NetMos Technology PCI 9835 Multi-I/O Controller"
>       Linux 3.9.10
> 
> J. Bruce Fields (1):
>       nfsd4: fix decoding of compounds across page boundaries
> 
> Jonathan Salwan (1):
>       drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c: use kzalloc() for failing hardware
> 
> Kees Cook (3):
>       charger-manager: Ensure event is not used as format string
>       block: do not pass disk names as format strings
>       crypto: sanitize argument for format string
> 
> Michal Hocko (1):
>       Revert "memcg: avoid dangling reference count in creation failure"
> 
> Mikulas Patocka (1):
>       hpfs: better test for errors
> 
> Rusty Russell (1):
>       module: do percpu allocation after uniqueness check. No, really!
> 
> Tyler Hicks (1):
>       libceph: Fix NULL pointer dereference in auth client code
> 
> Zhang Yi (1):
>       futex: Take hugepages into account when generating futex_key
> 
> majianpeng (1):
>       ceph: fix sleeping function called from invalid context.
>