Gentoo Archives: gentoo-kernel

From: Greg KH <gregkh@g.o>
To: gentoo-kernel@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-kernel] vanilla-kernel sources should not be marked stable for obsolete versions
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 04:14:45
Message-Id: 20130627041525.GA19047@kroah.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-kernel] vanilla-kernel sources should not be marked stable for obsolete versions by Douglas Dunn
1 On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 02:18:12AM -0400, Douglas Dunn wrote:
2 > A users perspective about vanilla-kernel, but why not just mirror whats
3 > available on kernel.org. keep it simple with the versions they offer there,
4 > with their longterm stable and slowly remove their EOL, maybe give a warning
5 > there till its gone from kernel and then make it gone from the tree.
6
7 That's exactly what I am proposing, but keeping everything marked
8 "unstable" as there's no time to mark them stable before the next
9 release comes out with fixes that should be applied.
10
11 thanks,
12
13 greg k-h