[elrepo] 4.14 LTS

Robin P. Blanchard robin.blanchard at gmail.com
Wed Feb 14 09:22:38 EST 2018


Thank you. This better answers my question.

Is there any discussion/movement to transition elrepo's LTS branch to
4.14? I ask simply because 4.11+ delivers support for modern SMB
dialects (https://marc.info/?l=linux-cifs&m=149760399614057&w=2).

Thanks in advance.

On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 2:23 PM, Leon Fauster via elrepo
<elrepo at lists.elrepo.org> wrote:
>
>> Am 13.02.2018 um 20:42 schrieb Robin P. Blanchard <robin.blanchard at gmail.com>:
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 12:29 PM, Phil Perry <phil at elrepo.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> kernel-ml is the *current* mainline kernel release. It was 4.14 until 4.15.0
>>> was released. It will be 4.15.x until 4.16.0 is released, and so on.
>>>
>>> If you want to stay on a single LTS branch, you want kernel-lt which is
>>> currently 4.4.x, and will stay as 4.4.x as long as the 4.4 branch is
>>> supported upstream by kernel.org.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks, Phil.
>>
>> I was under the impression that 4.14, 4.9, and 4.4 were all LTS branches.
>
> Yes, longterm on kernel.org
>
> elrepo.org is maintaining only two branches "longterm" (4.4 until 2022) and "mainline" (latest of kernel.org).
>
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