Re: 2.6.27 maintenance plans after 2.6.32 is released

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Sep 08 2009 - 19:06:19 EST


On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 12:44:23PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez<mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I was curious if 2.6.27 is planned to be supported after 2.6.32 is
> > released, or will that be dropped in favor for 2.6.28 as the last
> > supported kernel. How does dropping an old kernel for stable
> > maintenance consideration typically work?

.27 is a "long term" support kernel that I've decided to keep going for
a variety of reasons. .28 and .29 are currently no longer maintained.

So .27 is "special" right now, and seems to be working well. I keep
revaluating if it's worth keeping going, and so far, it seems like it
is, if for nothing else, personal reasons as I have a few servers based
on it :)

For .30, we will probably do a few more releases once .31 is out, and
then drop it as well.

I'm confused as to what .32 has to do with any of this, that's months
away...

thanks,

greg k-h
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