From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: <4F0D6006.40506@canonical.com> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:10:14 +0100 From: Tim Gardner Reply-To: tim.gardner@canonical.com MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH CC: stable@vger.kernel.org, Steven Rostedt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ben Hutchings Subject: Re: Latest kernel stable/longterm status References: <20120110003705.GA9482@kroah.com> <20120110022617.GA11376@home.goodmis.org> <4F0C0CF5.1080706@gmail.com> <20120110235612.GB1507@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20120110235612.GB1507@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 01/11/2012 12:56 AM, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 11:03:33AM +0100, Tim Gardner wrote: >> On 01/10/2012 03:26 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote: >>> On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 04:37:05PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: >>>> As 3.2 is now out, here's a note as to the current status of the >>>> different stable/longterm kernel trees. >>> >>> Thanks for all your hard work Greg! >>> >> >> I'd also like to thank Greg. >> >> Ubuntu will continue to support 2.6.32.y until April 2015. Ubuntu >> has also chosen 3.2 as a long term supported kernel for the 12.04 >> release and will pick up support for it when 3.3 is released. > > What exactly do you mean by this? > > greg k-h If you're agreeable, I would very much prefer to continue with the stable update model that you've developed by committing to the linux-2.6.32.y and linux-3.2.y branches in git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git. The mailing list review process as well as the policies regarding patch suitability are working well. rtg -- Tim Gardner tim.gardner@canonical.com