Re: Future of Linux 2.6.22.y series

[Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>]

On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 10:13:32AM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> For the last release, I stated that I thought the 2.6.22.12 release
> would be the last one in the 2.6.22.y series.  Since then, I've received
> a number of other patches that would be nice to have in the .22.y tree.
> 
> So, for a while, I'll keep the 2.6.22.y tree open, doing new releases
> every once in a while as they accumulate.  I do this, for no other than
> the selfish reason that I use it every day on my openSuSE 10.3 boxes as
> that is the kernel base that release is on :)

It certainly is one of the most valuable reasons. If all people were
"selfish" enough to contribute what they do only for themselves, we
would possibly have less out-of-tree code.

> If anyone has any objections or questions about this, please let me
> know.

Oh no, please keep it going on for as long as you want, I'll rebase my
version on it instead of 2.6.20.y ;-)

Thanks,
Willy

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