>>>>> "IU" == Iñaki Ucar <iu...@fedoraproject.org> writes:

IU> AFAIK, that wasn't officially supported.

What does "official" actually mean, and what relevance does that have?
Adrian Bunk didn't maintain 2.6.16 in a way that's much different than
the current long term support kernels are supported.  And even before
that, when kernel development worked in a rather different way, 2.0, 2.2
and 2.4 were all maintained as "stable releases" long after development
had moved on to newer things.  The concept of "stable" Linux kernels
maintained for years predates 2011 by quite some time.

In any case, that hardly matters because the context that's important is
how Fedora viewed those kernels in previous discussions about longer
Fedora release lifecycles.  I don't think there were any objections to
them based on some notion of being "official".  Linux itself was a lot
less "official" in general back then.  We knew that there were kernel
releases which could be used for the duration of a longer lifecycle but
that it wouldn't really help with the fundamental issues.  That
statement applies today as much as it did at the BU FUDCon in 2007.

 - J<
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