Quoting Greg Kroah-Hartman (gre...@linuxfoundation.org): > On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 01:49:48PM -0600, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > > Quoting Greg Kroah-Hartman (gre...@linuxfoundation.org): > > > On Sat, Jan 06, 2018 at 02:20:16AM +0900, Alice Ferrazzi wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 5:11 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman > > > > <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.110 release. > > > > > There are 37 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response > > > > > to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, > > > > > please > > > > > let me know. > > > > > > > > > > Responses should be made by Fri Jan 5 19:50:38 UTC 2018. > > > > > Anything received after that time might be too late. > > > > > > > > > > The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: > > > > > > > > > > kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.4.110-rc1.gz > > > > > or in the git tree and branch at: > > > > > > > > > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git > > > > > linux-4.4.y > > > > > and the diffstat can be found below. > > > > > > > > > > > > > This patchset merges correctly with Gentoo patches and GCC version 6.4.0 > > > > The kernel boot up correctly. > > > > Logs: http://kernel1.amd64.dev.gentoo.org:8010/#/builders/5/builds/44 > > > > > > Great, but Gentoo really should be moving to 4.9 and 4.14 here, I > > > hope no one running Gentoo is relying on 4.4 :) > > > > Wait what? > > > > According to https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html > > 4.4 should be the best bet for longest support, right? Does > > that page need to be updated? If 4.4 is not going to be > > supported, is there anything else with a possible 5-6 years > > of support? > > 4.4 is going to be supported, yes, but really, for a desktop/server > system, why would you ever want to stick with it for anything longer > than a year? No new hardware support is added, and no new features that > you would want are in there. > > The LTS kernels are for the crazy embedded people that don't change > their hardware systems, and have the insane huge number of out-of-tree > patches. No one else should be using those kernels, they should always > be using newer ones, as there are always more issues fixed in newer > kernels than older ones. > > So again, I hope no one running Gentoo, which is a rolling, constantly > updated distro, is using the old and crusty 4.4 kernel release. To do > so is to defeat the purpose of relying on Gentoo in the first place...
Ah, I see, yeah that makes sense :) thanks, -serge
