On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 08:16:44PM -0500, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > [Re: Announcement: Plans for v2.6.34-longterm] On 04/12/2010 (Sat 09:28) Greg > KH wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 04:07:19PM -0500, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > > > With that in mind, it is our intention to also maintain a 2.6.34 > > > longterm tree. Jason and I work at Wind River, which already has > > > released products based on v2.6.34, and as such it only makes sense > > > to have a public long-term tree that others who are also based on > > > 2.6.34 can make use of. > > > > Other than Wind River, what other distros/userbases are using .34 as a > > platform for their products? > > Well, since we create more of a distro builder, than a distro itself, > anyone who uses WR to in turn create a distro for their own hardware or > product will of course be using 2.6.34. The Yocto project is currently > using the 2.6.34 kernel and I'm sure there are others I'm not > immediately aware of.
I thought Yocto was going to be using .35, hence Andi and Tim's work to get that one "longterm"? Anyway, that's fine, I was just curious, thanks. > > And how long do you expect to be maintaining this .34 branch for? > > The expectation is that maintenance will be ongoing for years, since > we'll largely be needing to do that work anyway. I plan to follow your > lead on how you handled .27 -- i.e. the "early" releases will possibly > be rich with content, but as it gets to be closer to EOL (i.e. on the > order of 10 releases removed from current), then it will only be the key > CVE-like fixes and similar which will be added. That sounds very reasonable. If there's anything I can do to help out, let me know. thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ stable mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
