linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.27.28

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Date:	Sat, 25 Jul 2009 09:25:21 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Voegtle <tv@...96.de>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
cc:	Éric Piel <eric.piel@...mplin-utc.net>,
	webmaster@...nel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.27.28

Hi,

first of all: thank you for the stable kernels...

On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 01:49:53AM +0200, Éric Piel wrote:
>> Currently, there is no clue on www.kernel.org that 2.6.27 is a "long
>> term stable" kernel tree. Would it be possible to add a line to the page
>> pointing to the latest version of this type of tree? I'm sure some
>> people would love discovering that such thing exists :-)
>
> I'm curious as to why someone, if they were inclined to be using such a
> thing, wouldn't already know about this?

It even isn't called at linux-kernel-announce, except the latest stable 
kernel.
So you have to read LKML, or follow the lwn.net news to track the 
older stable kernel. Or always guessing: when there is a release of the 
newer stable kernel (this is announced in linux-kernel-announce) then 
there might be a release of the older one aswell...

> How many people really are relying on this .27 branch, becides the
> distros, these days?  And if you are, why?

I'm one of that guys, having a server and one firewall and feeling 
much better with a small optimized own-built kernel for that machines.
And both just work with this .27 branch, why should I change it to 
2.6.30.y?
I don't need any of the new features and it won't be faster with 2.6.30 or 
something else...

       Thomas