linux-kernel - Re: Future of the -longterm kernel releases (i.e. how we pick them).

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1108150004520.24266@asgard.lang.hm>
Date:	Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:06:56 -0700 (PDT)
From:	david@...g.hm
To:	Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@....de>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...ux.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Future of the -longterm kernel releases (i.e. how we pick
 them).

On Mon, 15 Aug 2011, J?rg-Volker Peetz wrote:

> Greg KH wrote, on 08/15/11 06:15:
> <snip>
>>
>> - a new -longterm kernel is picked every year.
>> - a -longterm kernel is maintained for 2 years and then dropped.
> <snip>
>
> Just a little nitpick: with this scheme you will accumulate longterm kernels. If
> I understand it right, one longterm kernel is added every year.

but with one new kernel being added each year, and then being dropped two 
years later, there are only 2 long term kernels at any one time (that Greg 
will be maintaining at least, nothing stops other people from maintaining 
other long term kernels in addition)

David Lang
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