Re: Clean up older Kernels

[Bradley Chapman]

Mr. Garzik,

> > On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 08:40:47PM +0100, Thomas Babut wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > perhaps my question is unusual, but why do you not clean up the older Linux
> > Kernels?
> >
> > The Kernel 2.0.39 is the last stable one, but there is also a 2.0.40-rc6. So
> > why not releasing it as stable 2.0.40 (final)? And Alan Cox isn't active any
> > more for some time and the ac-Patches are very old. They could be removed,
> > or not?
>
> 2.0.x has a maintainer, David Winehall(sp?) IIRC. Poke him... :)
>
> I agree, might as well put out 2.0.40...

I've been wondering about this too, but I was afraid to ask first :-)

When 2.6 is officially released as a stable kernel and 2.4 is relegated to security/
bugfix-only status, what will happen to 2.0 and 2.2? Obviously, they won't be
totally ignored for support reasons (not everyone uses 2.4 - see counter.li.org),
but what will Mr. Anvin do to the frontpage of kernel.org?

Brad

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