On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 04:37:54PM -0500, Mike Snitzer wrote: > On Feb 12, 2008 4:18 PM, Ferenc Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Xavier Bestel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > On mar, 2008-02-12 at 21:27 +0100, Wagner Ferenc wrote: > > > > > >> which are the "currently active Linux kernel versions" at any point in > > >> time? The quote is taken from http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/11/29. > > >> Or more precisely: which are the "stable" versions I can depend on for > > >> a more or less critical server, those that have active security > > >> support or receive at least critical bugfixes? I know about the > > >> 2.6.2[34].y stable git trees, but I wonder how long will those receive > > >> attention (that is, security fixes). Can I find a written policy > > >> somewhere? > > > > > > The answer is at http://kernel.org/ > > > > Not quite, at least I can't find 2.6.23.y there, even though that > > branch seems to be maintained... > > 2.6.16.x is still maintained (2.6.16.60 was recently released). > > 2.6.22.x is still maintained but Greg KH is apparently going to be > ending his duties on it after the next release or so. There is some > confusion as to whether Willy Tarreau will be taking on the 2.6.22.x > tree once Greg is done, Willy?: > http://lwn.net/Articles/268003/ > http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Stable_2.6_Branches
Huh? I never said that! Maybe I did not explain myself well, but that was not what I was saying. I was simply saying that the good news about Greg keeping 2.6.22.y open was that I'd throw my 2.6.20.y away and rely on his tree instead. I'm not really sure there's a need for 2.6.22 for a longer time. I did that for 2.6.20 because .21 was crappy, people did not want to jump to the fresh new 2.6.22 and it was unfair to expect Greg&Chris to maintain 3 versions in parallel, it's already cool to have two of them. 2.6.23.y looks very good to me, so I don't see what particular reason people would have not to switch right now. But if there is a very good reason (not motivated by unfixed regressions) and *if* it does not take me too many hours a week, I'm not against this idea since I'm still using 2.6.22 on some machines right now. But don't expect too many releases though. > 2.6.23.x and 2.6.24.x are obviously quite active for [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, Willy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/