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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: No more Linux 2.4 releases
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 15:22:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201204091522.38021.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120409133050.GA17473@1wt.eu>

On Monday 09 April 2012, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> However since the break-in, I was surprized to see that some users have
> asked where to find the 2.4 git tree to pick some fixes from it. After
> discussing with several of them, it appears that they're not really
> interested in releases, rather just in having a place where fixes are
> centralized and that the git tree is perfect for this. So I revived the
> git tree in my account and will probably push a patch there once in a
> while if people ask for this, but with no guarantees.

Thanks for putting it back. I was recently in the situation of trying
to figure out where some code came from. Having an easy way to see
if it was in 2.4 definitely helps there.

I'm still looking for a copy of the "historic" kernels that we used
to have on kernel.org, but that's not your problem.

	Arnd

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-09 15:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-09 13:30 No more Linux 2.4 releases Willy Tarreau
2012-04-09 15:22 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2012-04-09 15:56   ` Dave Jones
2012-04-09 16:14     ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-04-09 20:48   ` Thorsten Kranzkowski
2012-04-10 11:20     ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-04-11 21:11       ` Jiri Kosina

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