From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755784Ab1HRMLX (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Aug 2011 08:11:23 -0400 Received: from smtp.tele.fi ([192.89.123.25]:43144 "EHLO vulpes-int.media.sonera.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752826Ab1HRMLU (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Aug 2011 08:11:20 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 2589 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 08:11:19 EDT X-Originating-Ip: [194.89.68.22] Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:28:06 +0300 From: Pasi =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=E4rkk=E4inen?= To: Ben Hutchings Cc: Greg KH , Tim Bird , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable-review@kernel.org, tim.bird@am.sony.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, stable@kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Subject: Re: [Stable-review] Future of the -longterm kernel releases (i.e. how we pick them). Message-ID: <20110818112806.GF32373@reaktio.net> References: <20110815041524.GA7578@kroah.com> <20110817045856.GB4936@kroah.com> <1313627614.2799.61.camel@deadeye> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1313627614.2799.61.camel@deadeye> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 01:33:34AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 21:58 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 04:01:57PM -0700, Tim Bird wrote: > [...] > > > One specific issue I have is support for PREEMPT_RT, so that's a big > > > factor in selecting Sony kernel versions. Thus, coordinating with the > > > RT patchset kernel versions is important to me. Currently > > > that would mean 3.0 is a good candidate. > > > > 3.0 is looking like a good candidate, but we haven't seen 3.1 yet :) > [...] > > I'm quite happy with 3.0 in terms of stability and features, though it's > early days yet. It's not so good for Debian in terms of timing. We're > not going to freeze for another 10 months, then the release will likely > be at least 6 months after that. The earlier a kernel release we pick > with, the more hardware support needs to be backported later. So, > extrapolating the likely kernel release dates, I think I would prefer to > use something between 3.2 and 3.4. > I'd *guess* Ubuntu 12.04 LTS goes for Linux 3.2 .. -- Pasi > As for the RT patchset, I haven't seen any announcement that it will > continue to be developed against 3.0 after the release of 3.1. Of > course, the fact that there *is* a working RT patchset for 3.0 is an > advancement over recent upstream releases. > > Ben. >