linux-kernel - Re: Bumping required kernels to 3.0 for Linux backports ?

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Date:	Wed, 9 Apr 2014 13:01:23 -0700
From:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...not-panic.com>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Felix Fietkau <nbd@...nwrt.org>,
	"backports@...r.kernel.org" <backports@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: Bumping required kernels to 3.0 for Linux backports ?

On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 11:28:55AM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 2:18 AM, Felix Fietkau <nbd@...nwrt.org> wrote:
>> > The oldest kernel in OpenWrt that we're still supporting with updates of
>> > the backports tree is 3.3, so raising the minimum requirement to 3.0 is
>> > completely fine with me.
>>
>> OK note that 3.3 is not listed on kernel.org as supported. I'm fine in
>> carrying the stuff for those for now but ultimately it'd also be nice
>> if we didn't even have to test the kernels in between which are not
>> listed. This does however raise the question of how often a kernel in
>> between a list of supported kernels gets picked up to be supported
>> eventually. Greg, Jiri, do you happen to know what the likelyhood of
>> that can be?
>
> I don't know of anything ever getting picked up after I have said it
> would not be supported anymore.

Great! How soon after a release do you mention whether or not it will
be supported? Like say, 3.14, which was just released. Also, as of
late are you aware any distribution picking an unsupported kernel for
their next choice of kernel?

  Luis
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