linux-kernel - Re: [patch 00/33] 2.6.20-stable review

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Message-ID: <20070428054800.GA6267@suse.de>
Date:	Fri, 27 Apr 2007 22:48:00 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Bryan WU <bryan.wu@...log.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org,
	Justin Forbes <jmforbes@...uxtx.org>,
	Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@....linux.org.uk>,
	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Chuck Wolber <chuckw@...ntumlinux.com>,
	Chris Wedgwood <reviews@...cw.f00f.org>,
	Michael Krufky <mkrufky@...uxtv.org>,
	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [patch 00/33] 2.6.20-stable review

On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 12:21:24PM +0800, Bryan WU wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 08:13 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 06:15:54PM +0800, Wu, Bryan wrote:
> > > 
> > > You know for some customer's product, they want to use the stable and
> > > long term support kernel instead to use the latest one. 
> > 
> > Then they should get that support from a vendor, not from the kernel.org
> > releases :)
> > 
> 
> Yeah, but we are the vendor as you mentioned. -:))

Ah, then you already know what to do :)

> If we wanna to release a kernel to customer product development, how to
> choose the stable version?

That's up to you.

> Currently, we always followed the kernel release cycle/rules and give
> customer the latest stable version.

Ok, then what has really changed here?  We've been doing this .y release
thing (also called -stable) for about 2 years now, nothing is different
this week from last.

Confused,

greg k-h
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