On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 03:00:59PM +0200, Oliver wrote: > 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.
Ok, where can I be more "verbose" about this? > > 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. Exactly. thanks, greg k-h -- 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
