No more Linux 2.4 releases
Hi all,
15 months ago I announced that if no more critical fix was to be merged by one year, 2.4 would be EOLed after a year (around december 2011). The break-in of last year made things a bit difficult for some users but nothing really important for 2.4 users was merged since, so the EOL had no reason to be delayed.
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.
Anyway I don't intend to waste any more space on kernel.org with tar.gz files nor patches that too few people use.
The repository is now available here :
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/wtarreau/linux-2.4.git
If anyone has any question, feel free to ask.
Willy
Quoted 7 lines · Willy Tarreau
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
Quoted 2 lines · Arnd Bergmann
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.
http://archive.org/details/git-history-of-linux
Dave
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Quoted 2 lines · Arnd Bergmann
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.
Cool, thanks a lot!
Arnd
Quoted 3 lines · Arnd Bergmann
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.
I recently found something here:
http://147.52.159.12/mirrors/ftp.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/history.git
http://147.52.159.12/mirrors/ftp.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git
Thorsten
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Arnd
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Quoted 3 lines · Arnd Bergmann
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.
I recently found something here:
http://147.52.159.12/mirrors/ftp.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/history.git
http://147.52.159.12/mirrors/ftp.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git
Ok, thanks,
While the archive.org repository that Dave mentioned has a good history leading up to v2.6.12, these ones add the stable branches (v2.4, v2.2, v2.0, ...) and the missing tags. I think I've got it all now.
Arnd
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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.
I recently found something here:
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http://147.52.159.12/mirrors/ftp.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/history.git
http://147.52.159.12/mirrors/ftp.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.gitOk, thanks,
While the archive.org repository that Dave mentioned has a good history leading up to v2.6.12, these ones add the stable branches (v2.4, v2.2, v2.0, ...) and the missing tags. I think I've got it all now.
How about we push it to kernel.org? The one Thomas is having there seems to go back to 2.5-times only.
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