Today the backports project provides support to backport down to 2.6.24 for some subsystems. While this is good for users in practice for development and maintenance this is quite a bit of overhead. Apart from older kernels there are also gaps in between stable releases that are not supported. For example 3.8 and 3.4 are supported but anything in between is not (3.5, 3.6, 3.7), but we still do support them on the backports project. At times this may mean a stable fix may get propagated onto a the linux-3.4.y branch but obviously not the the linux-3.5.y branch. If backporting expressing this becomes a bit complex and we have dealt with it. In short, its a pain. I'd like to see what folks thought if we went ahead and *only* supported kernels listed on kernel.org as supported. This would help with the Linux kernel maintainer effort by also persuading users to upgrade to stable releases as well as educating around this. If v3.10 backported releases are too soon to do this I propose we seriously consider it for v3.11 releases. Any thoughts? Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe backports" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
