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-stable branches usage

DISCUSSION Ralf Baechle 2 participants 2 messages May 31, 2007 – Jun 11, 2007 MIPS

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It's probably not a surprise when I'm saying that maintaining all the -stable branches of 2.6.16..2.6.21 for MIPS is a major effort and increasingly simply a huge pain in the ... you know where due to the differences. So before I actually deciede when and which of the branches I'm going to dump I would like to poll who actually uses these -stable branches.

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Ralf

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Quoted 6 lines · Ralf Baechle

It's probably not a surprise when I'm saying that maintaining all the -stable branches of 2.6.16..2.6.21 for MIPS is a major effort and increasingly simply a huge pain in the ... you know where due to the differences. So before I actually deciede when and which of the branches I'm going to dump I would like to poll who actually uses these -stable branches.

For Debian, the 2.6.18 tree is useful since our stable kernel is based on that release. However, we can only put crucial fixes into a stable release, so I wouldn't expect much to show up on the 2.6.18 branch.

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