[ANNOUNCE] Linux 3.16.y.z extended stable support

[ANNOUNCE] Linux 3.16.y.z extended stable support

[Luis Henriques]

The Ubuntu kernel team is pleased to announce that we will be
providing extended stable support for the Linux 3.16 kernel until
April 2016 as a third party effort maintained on our infrastructure.
The team will pick up stable maintenance where Greg KH left off with
v3.16.7 [1].  Thank you, Greg.

In addition to the Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" release, the Debian 8
"Jessie" release will also be based on this kernel [2].  Since the
regular support for "Jessie" will go beyond April 2016, after this
date Ben Hutchings (or myself) will continue the Linux 3.16 kernel
maintenance.

Our linux-3.16.y{-queue,-review} stable branches will fork from
v3.16.7
and will be published here:

    git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/linux.git

We will use the same stable request/review workflow and follow the
standard upstream stable kernel rules.  More details are available
here [3].

We welcome any feedback and contribution to this effort.  We will be
posting the first review cycle patch set in a week or two.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/30/583
[2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2014/07/msg00413.html
[3] http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Cheers,
-- 
Lu�s Henriques
Ubuntu Kernel Team, Canonical Ltd.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux 3.16.y.z extended stable support

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 06:17:01PM +0000, Luis Henriques wrote:
> The Ubuntu kernel team is pleased to announce that we will be
> providing extended stable support for the Linux 3.16 kernel until
> April 2016 as a third party effort maintained on our infrastructure.
> The team will pick up stable maintenance where Greg KH left off with
> v3.16.7 [1].  Thank you, Greg.
> 
> In addition to the Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" release, the Debian 8
> "Jessie" release will also be based on this kernel [2].  Since the
> regular support for "Jessie" will go beyond April 2016, after this
> date Ben Hutchings (or myself) will continue the Linux 3.16 kernel
> maintenance.
> 
> Our linux-3.16.y{-queue,-review} stable branches will fork from
> v3.16.7
> and will be published here:
> 
>     git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/linux.git
> 
> We will use the same stable request/review workflow and follow the
> standard upstream stable kernel rules.  More details are available
> here [3].
> 
> We welcome any feedback and contribution to this effort.  We will be
> posting the first review cycle patch set in a week or two.
> 
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/30/583
> [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2014/07/msg00413.html
> [3] http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Can you _PLEASE_ use a '-somename' format of the kernel release
numbering scheme for this release, if you are going to do this, to
reduce the confusion that has been happening with your kernel releases?

thanks,

greg k-h

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux 3.16.y.z extended stable support

[Luis Henriques]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 06:17:01PM +0000, Luis Henriques wrote:
> The Ubuntu kernel team is pleased to announce that we will be
> providing extended stable support for the Linux 3.16 kernel until
> April 2016 as a third party effort maintained on our infrastructure.
> The team will pick up stable maintenance where Greg KH left off with
> v3.16.7 [1].  Thank you, Greg.
> 
> In addition to the Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" release, the Debian 8
> "Jessie" release will also be based on this kernel [2].  Since the
> regular support for "Jessie" will go beyond April 2016, after this
> date Ben Hutchings (or myself) will continue the Linux 3.16 kernel
> maintenance.
> 
> Our linux-3.16.y{-queue,-review} stable branches will fork from
> v3.16.7
> and will be published here:
> 
>     git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/linux.git
> 
> We will use the same stable request/review workflow and follow the
> standard upstream stable kernel rules.  More details are available
> here [3].
> 

In addition, I would like to announce a change in the kernel numbering
scheme that we will be using: we are adding the string '-ckt'
('Canonical Kernel Team') to the kernel version.  So, for example,
kernel '3.16.7.1' becomes '3.16.7-ckt1'.

Note that this change applies *only* to the 3.16 kernel, although in
the future we may consider doing it for other kernels we are currently
maintaining.

Cheers,
--
Lu�s

> We welcome any feedback and contribution to this effort.  We will be
> posting the first review cycle patch set in a week or two.
> 
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/30/583
> [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2014/07/msg00413.html
> [3] http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Lu�s Henriques
> Ubuntu Kernel Team, Canonical Ltd.
> 
> -- 
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> kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kernel-team

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux 3.16.y.z extended stable support

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 10:43:28AM +0000, Luis Henriques wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 06:17:01PM +0000, Luis Henriques wrote:
> > The Ubuntu kernel team is pleased to announce that we will be
> > providing extended stable support for the Linux 3.16 kernel until
> > April 2016 as a third party effort maintained on our infrastructure.
> > The team will pick up stable maintenance where Greg KH left off with
> > v3.16.7 [1].  Thank you, Greg.
> > 
> > In addition to the Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" release, the Debian 8
> > "Jessie" release will also be based on this kernel [2].  Since the
> > regular support for "Jessie" will go beyond April 2016, after this
> > date Ben Hutchings (or myself) will continue the Linux 3.16 kernel
> > maintenance.
> > 
> > Our linux-3.16.y{-queue,-review} stable branches will fork from
> > v3.16.7
> > and will be published here:
> > 
> >     git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/linux.git
> > 
> > We will use the same stable request/review workflow and follow the
> > standard upstream stable kernel rules.  More details are available
> > here [3].
> > 
> 
> In addition, I would like to announce a change in the kernel numbering
> scheme that we will be using: we are adding the string '-ckt'
> ('Canonical Kernel Team') to the kernel version.  So, for example,
> kernel '3.16.7.1' becomes '3.16.7-ckt1'.

Thank you for doing this.

greg k-h