Re: [gentoo-dev] Too many kernels?

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 07:22:51PM -0400, Grant Goodyear wrote:
> # ls /usr/portage/sys-kernel -l | grep -v CVS | wc -l
> 44
>
> Anybody know which kernels are actually being used?  Which have active
> maintainers?  Given the goal of a quick response to kernel
> vulnerabilities, it seems clear that each kernel needs a redundancy of
> two to three people who can update handle patches when the need arises.
> (That doesn't mean we need 3*44 kernel devs; a high degree of
> overlapping would be fine.)

I am trying to slowly weed through all of these, and delete the ones
that are no longer needed (I did 2 last week.)

Note that a lot of these are either:
	- arch specific
	- patchset specific

The arch specific ones should have maintainers, the arch maintainers.
The patchset specific ones are (in my opinion) pretty much pointless.
Sure, some people like them, but it seems like a strange way to track a
-mm or -aa or -ck kernel using a ebuild.  But that's just my opinion.

Oh, remember, those patchset specific kernels usually never get the
security updates that the "supported" kernels do (g-s and g-d-s).

thanks,

greg k-h

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