From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757267AbYDSUGw (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:06:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752964AbYDSUGm (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:06:42 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:54518 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754588AbYDSUGm (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:06:42 -0400 Message-ID: <480A5008.40300@zytor.com> Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:03:20 -0400 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080226) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Willy Tarreau CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.36.3 References: <20080419145327.GA23566@hera.kernel.org> <480A4693.3050208@zytor.com> <20080419194438.GA16133@1wt.eu> In-Reply-To: <20080419194438.GA16133@1wt.eu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Willy Tarreau wrote: > Hi Peter, > > On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 03:22:59PM -0400, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> Any reason to have 2.4.x.y instead of just 2.4.x+y? I find it somewhat >> hard to believe there is substantial new development on 2.4, so it >> really should be all "stable". > > Since 2.4.33 there have been a few minor add-ons and backports (support > for gcc4, e1000 update, and mmap_min_addr come to mind). It's important > for me to indicate when users can blindly upgrade (eg: security fix or > real bug) and when they should at least perform a quick revalidation. > > This has worked well for quite some time now. Since the changes were > really minor here, I did not want to open 2.4.37 with just that. Maybe > there will be no 2.4.37, maybe I'll open it if I gather several significant > driver/arch updates or build fixes (eg: gcc is not supported beyond 4.1 > right now). > OK, makes sense. -hpa