netdev - Re: ELOed stable kernels

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Date:   Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:44:26 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Matthias May <matthias.may@...atec.com>
Cc:     Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@...il.com>,
        Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ELOed stable kernels

On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 04:39:28PM +0200, Matthias May wrote:
> On 19/09/2019 16:05, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> > Hi Greg,
> > 
> > If this is RTFM could you please point me to the Emm
> > 
> > AFAIR if a stable kernel is not listed at kernel.org than it is EOL by now.
> > 
> > Is this correct?
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > Or.
> > 
> 
> You can also look at the wikipedia page at
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel#Maintenance_and_long-term_support
> 
> I do the updates of the entries for each release once the release-announcement has been sent to the list.
> At least since I'm doing this (last ~5 years), the last release-announcement of a branch always contains a notice that
> this release is now EOL.
> I reference all these messages for each version.

Very nice, I never noticed that!

Also, you might want to use lore.kernel.org for the email archives,
don't know who runs those other sites you link to :)

thanks,

greg k-h