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Cannot stay at 2.6.16.x because...

Cannot stay at 2.6.16.x because...

Posted Mar 13, 2007 5:45 UTC (Tue) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: Cannot stay at 2.6.16.x because... by pr1268
Parent article: Stable kernel 2.6.20.2

a maintainer stepped up and decided to commit to patching 2.6.16 long-term.

nobody has done this for later versions


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Cannot stay at 2.6.16.x because...

Posted Mar 13, 2007 9:00 UTC (Tue) by tomas2 (guest, #37038) [Link]

"a maintainer stepped up and decided to commit to patching 2.6.16 long-term."

AFAIK it's Adrian Bunk.
http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/12/3/55
http://lwn.net/Articles/194555/
http://kerneltrap.org/node/6386

I thought back then when I first read about this that Debian would go with this kernel for Etch, but they didn't. Anyone knows why?

Tomas

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