2.4 kernel releases come to an end

[Posted April 9, 2012 by corbet]

From:		Willy Tarreau <w-AT-1wt.eu>
To:		linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org
Subject:		No more Linux 2.4 releases
Date:		Mon, 9 Apr 2012 15:30:50 +0200
Message-ID:		<20120409133050.GA17473@1wt.eu>
Archive‑link:		Article

Hi all,

15 months ago I announced that if no more critical fix was to be merged
by one year, 2.4 would be EOLed after a year (around december 2011). The
break-in of last year made things a bit difficult for some users but
nothing really important for 2.4 users was merged since, so the EOL had
no reason to be delayed.

However since the break-in, I was surprized to see that some users have
asked where to find the 2.4 git tree to pick some fixes from it. After
discussing with several of them, it appears that they're not really
interested in releases, rather just in having a place where fixes are
centralized and that the git tree is perfect for this. So I revived the
git tree in my account and will probably push a patch there once in a
while if people ask for this, but with no guarantees.

Anyway I don't intend to waste any more space on kernel.org with tar.gz
files nor patches that too few people use.

The repository is now available here :

   http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/wtarreau/linux-...

If anyone has any question, feel free to ask.

Willy

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2.4 kernel releases come to an end

Posted Apr 10, 2012 13:07 UTC (Tue) by JEFFREY (guest, #79095) [Link] (2 responses)

From the summary: "But with No Guarantees"

From the GPLv2:

11. BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.

Hmmm. Looks like there never was a guarantee...

I was actually surprised that the 2.4 Kernel was still being maintained at up to this point, until I realized that RHEL (and most likely others) only recently EOLed a release version that uses the 2.4 Kernel.