Kernel 2.6.32 longterm End-Of-Life. Whats next ?

[dabetz]

Hi grsec team,

Greg Kroah-Hartman has written in his blog http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/stable-status-01-2012.html that he doenst want do make releases for the 2.6.32 kernel anymore.

2.6.32.y - this is the previous "longterm" kernel release. It is approaching it's end-of-life, and I think I only have another month or so doing releases of this. After I am finished with it, it might be picked up by someone else, but I'm not going to promise anything.

Do you know for what kernel do you make patches in the future ?
3.1 tree ?

Greetings,
Daniel

[PaX Team]

there're two aspects of any longterm kernel support: 1. tracking changes going into the longterm kernel, 2. backporting our changes from kernel du jour. our stand on these is that 1. we'll keep tracking the .32 changes should anyone rise up to the task of continuing it, 2. we'll keep backporting our changes to .32 as before, probably for as long as the .32 based distros remain in wider use. i'd say this means that we'll keep .32 up-to-date this year at least, beyond that i don't know yet. as for a new stable base, it's a good question, it's hard to pick one . i can tell you it's not going to be either 3.0 or 3.1, maybe 3.2 (it'll be the base for the next Ubuntu LTS), or something beyond that perhaps.

[dabetz]

Hi Pax Team,

good to know this now.

So we can relax now an while before we are going to 3.2 (maybe?)

Greetings,
Daniel

[azurit]

well, i suggest moving to 3.0.x as this will be the next longterm vanilla kernel (we can stay there for 2 years which is enough of time):

3.0.y - this is the new "longterm" kernel release, it will be maintained for 2 years at the minimum by me.

[azurit]

any decision was made? we would like to rebase also other of our patches so this information is really welcome. thank you!

[spender]

Hi,

We've decided to choose 3.2 as the next stable kernel, the same version chosen by Debian and Ubuntu. In addition to this, we'll continue supporting 2.6.32 for at least the rest of this year.

-Brad

[Grach]

spender, pipacs, thank you very much, guys! Very appreciated. 3.2 rocks.