Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:25:05 -0700 (PDT) | From | david@lang ... | Subject | Re: Future of the -longterm kernel releases (i.e. how we pick them). |
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On Mon, 15 Aug 2011, Teck Choon Giam wrote:
> 2011/8/15 <david@lang.hm>: >> 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) > > Err... sorry from my understanding like this year... one new long term > kernel added so it is N+1 then next year is N+1+1 and two years drop > one so it is N+1+1-1... so every year there will be one new long term > added and every two years there will be one overall long term kernel > added to total number of long term kernels... since two are added > within 2 years and one dropped every 2 years. So there are not only 2 > long term kernels at any one time in this case... ... someone correct > me if I am wrong.
in 2011 there will be a -longterm kernel picked (1 maintained)
in 2012 there will be a -longterm kernel picked (1+1=2 maintained)
in 2013 there will be a -longterm kernel picked, but the 2011 one will no longer be maintained (1+1+1-1=2 maintained)
in 2014 there will be a -longterm kernel picked, but the 2012 one will no longer be maintained (1+1+1+1-1-1=2 maintained)
David Lang
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