On Sunday 14 October 2012 05:46:38 Greg KH wrote: > Let me turn it around the other way, why do you need this? It's been > explicitly stated for 6+ years now that we drop support for the last > stable tree when Linus does a new release. And it's been stated that I > will pick 1 new "longterm" kernel every year to keep around for a while, > and that the 3.4 kernel was that release for this year.
That is something I was not clear on as I was always under the impression that the whole thing about odd release numbers no longer being "special" meant they could be candidates, but given this information, I can say that I personally will certainly no longer need it. Nonetheless, verbosity with regard to this could arguably be considered a Good Thing in terms of not only being a convenient and immutable point of reference but also (hopefully) preventing unnecessary questions about revision lifetimes. > > With that in mind, what do you think the lifespan of the 3.6.y kernel is > going to be? :) "Until 3.7" ...that is, assuming nobody else decides to continue it. Either way, I've not really got any horse in this race, if you feel plonking such info into the git commit is still unjustified, this thread can be relegated to > /dev/null Kind Regards, Oliver -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
