On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 02:11:34PM -0600, Patrick J. Volkerding wrote:
> On 02/04/2011 11:37 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> >On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 10:55:23AM -0600, Manoj Iyer wrote:
> >>Please consider the following upstream commits to your 2.6.35+ tree,
> >>these patches enable the camera hotkeys on ThinkPad Edge 11,13,14,15
> >>and x100e.
> >
> >Why would .35, which is pretty explicitly for the "embedded" crowd, care
> >about thinkpad patches?  Shouldn't anyone using a laptop already be
> >moved off to .36 or (hopefully) .37 by now?
> >
> >curious,
> >
> >greg k-h
> 
> Hi Greg,
> 
> Some of us (at least me ;) are under the impression that long term
> support is planned for .35, but that it's still up in the air
> whether .36 or .37 will get that, so perhaps that is why.

No, .36 nor .37 will get "longterm" support, at least not from me.

I actually have no future longterm support kernels in mind for quite
some time, as I'm busy enough with .32 and the "normal" -stable kernel
releases.

> We're still on .35 in Slackware -current (for now).

Ok, that makes a bit more sense.

thanks,

greg k-h

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