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From: paul.sherwood@codethink.co.uk (Paul Sherwood)
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 17:44:42 +0100
Subject: [cip-dev] Introduction
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On 2016-09-15 17:17, Paul Sherwood wrote:
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> Just yesterday there was a very interesting post about backports and
> long term stable kernels on LWN [2]. Greg is quoted there 
> considering:

Oops - I gave the wrong link:

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/700530/7f1c21b0fd40489e/

> "But if we didn't provide an LTS, would companies constantly update
> their kernels to newer releases to keep up with the security and
> bugfixes? That goes against everything those managers/PMs have ever
> been used to in the past, yet it's actually the best thing they could
> do."