<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 10:05 AM, Alan Bartlett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ajb@elrepo.org" target="_blank">ajb@elrepo.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On 22 March 2016 at 07:56, Akemi Yagi <<a href="mailto:amyagi@gmail.com">amyagi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 9:47 AM, Alan Bartlett <<a href="mailto:ajb@elrepo.org">ajb@elrepo.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Just concluding this brief conversation by thanking everyone for their<br>
>> contributions and saying that the plans are --<br>
>><br>
>> For EL6: To migrate to a kernel-lt-3.18.X series once the linux-3.10.X<br>
>> branch has been declared at EOL.<br>
>><br>
>> For EL7: Not to provide a kernel-lt at this time but to review the<br>
>> situation in about 6 months.<br>
>><br>
>> Alan.<br>
><br>
><br>
> It is about the time to revisit this discussion!<br>
><br>
> Akemi<br>
<br>
</div></div>Revisiting this discussion (as directed, above) . . .<br>
<br>
For EL6 there is no change to the plan announced in October 2015:<br>
<span class=""><br>
"To migrate to a kernel-lt-3.18.X series once the linux-3.10.X branch<br>
has been declared at EOL."<br>
<br>
</span>For EL7, six months have now passed and it is time to review the<br>
situation. As of yesterday morning there had not been any significant<br>
requests for a kernel-lt package set. Later in the day a request was<br>
received --<br>
<br>
<a href="http://lists.elrepo.org/pipermail/elrepo/2016-March/003024.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.elrepo.org/pipermail/elrepo/2016-March/003024.html</a><br>
<br>
That request prompted me to consider the upstream status of the<br>
various branches of the Linux kernel sources. Looking at the<br>
"releases" page [1] the following can been seen:<br>
<br>
[quote]<br>
Longterm release kernels<br>
<br>
Version Maintainer Released Projected EOL<br>
<br>
4.4 Greg Kroah-Hartman 2016-01-10 Feb, 2018<br>
4.1 Sasha Levin 2015-06-21 Sep, 2017<br>
3.18 Sasha Levin 2014-12-07 Jan, 2017<br>
3.14 Greg Kroah-Hartman 2014-03-30 Aug, 2016<br>
3.12 Jiri Slaby 2013-11-03 2016<br>
3.10 Greg Kroah-Hartman 2013-06-30 End of 2015<br>
3.4 Li Zefan 2012-05-20 Sep, 2016<br>
3.2 Ben Hutchings 2012-01-04 May, 2018<br>
[/quote]<br>
<br>
Informal discussions have identified that a kernel-lt package set for<br>
EL7 should be built from a 4.X source branch.<br>
<br>
The above table shows two options and my initial thought was to use<br>
the earliest available branch, that of 4.1. Considering the projected<br>
EOL for both 4.1 and 4.4, neither really looks to be as long term as I<br>
would like. So after another period of reflection I have decided to<br>
base the EL7 kernel-lt package set on the 4.4.X source branch.<br>
<br>
Your comments will be appreciated, please.<br>
<br>
Alan.<br>
<br>
[1] <a href="https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html</a><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>+1 from me. In any event, you are the one who decides, Alan.<br><br></div><div>Akemi <br></div></div></div></div>