linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.4 00/37] 4.4.110-stable review

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Date:   Tue, 9 Jan 2018 13:49:48 -0600
From:   "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Alice Ferrazzi <alicef@...too.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>, shuahkh@....samsung.com,
        patches@...nelci.org,
        Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@...ethink.co.uk>,
        lkft-triage@...ts.linaro.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.4 00/37] 4.4.110-stable review

Quoting Greg Kroah-Hartman (gregkh@...uxfoundation.org):
> On Sat, Jan 06, 2018 at 02:20:16AM +0900, Alice Ferrazzi wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 5:11 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.110 release.
> > > There are 37 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> > > to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > > let me know.
> > >
> > > Responses should be made by Fri Jan  5 19:50:38 UTC 2018.
> > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > >
> > > The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> > >         kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.4.110-rc1.gz
> > > or in the git tree and branch at:
> > >   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.4.y
> > > and the diffstat can be found below.
> > >
> > 
> > This patchset merges correctly with Gentoo patches and GCC version 6.4.0
> > The kernel boot up correctly.
> > Logs: http://kernel1.amd64.dev.gentoo.org:8010/#/builders/5/builds/44
> 
> Great, but Gentoo really should be moving to 4.9 and 4.14 here, I
> hope no one running Gentoo is relying on 4.4 :)

Wait what?

According to https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html
4.4 should be the best bet for longest support, right?  Does
that page need to be updated?  If 4.4 is not going to be
supported, is there anything else with a possible 5-6 years
of support?