Alec Ten Harmsel <a...@alectenharmsel.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 10:12:28PM -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> > Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Gentoo-sources keywording tends to lag a bit, though I thought they
> > > were going to change that. I tend to just keep my own git clone of
> > > the kernel tree and checkout from tags.
> >
> > Do you bother with the gentoo patches?
>
> I seem to recall the list having a discussion about gentoo-sources vs.
> vanilla-sources a while ago, and I believe Rich doesn't use the gentoo
> patches. It doesn't seem like he does, since just above he mentions that
> he builds and runs kernels from a checkout of a git repo from
> kernel.org.
>
> > I have the kernel tree and none of the tags say longterm, do I have the
> > wrong tree or something? The url I have is
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
>
> The stable tree is
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git.
> Only X.Y tags go into Linus' git repo, not X.Y.Z. When they switched
> from version 2 to version 3, the numbering scheme changed a bit. Any
> kernel version with a third version number is either stable or long
> term, and if the last number in the version is more than 8 or 10, it is
> probably going to be a long term kernel.
>
> This is pretty much the rationale that I use for updating - as soon as a
> kernel version higher than the one I'm currently running has the last
> number in the version hit 8 or 10, I upgrade.
OK, that is interesting, I like to use Linus's tree for fooling around,
so that tells me something.
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