On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 09:59:16AM -0500, David Kremer wrote: > On 08/02/2012 15:49, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > Ubuntu 11.10 is not a LTS release. [...] There seems to be > > some magic in deciding which kernel releases are going to be LTS, my > > predictions usually turn out to be wrong, and I gave up trying. > The 3.0 branch is flagged as a LTS version in archlinux. Knowing their > way to do thing and to prefer vanilla packages, the 3.0 kernel is a long > term support version I guess (at least only candidate for bug fixes and > security patches). > > For the ubuntu version, you are probably right, and one shouldn't care > about ubuntu in particular I guess. But as it concerns the LTS support, > it could be nice if hwmon drivers could be stable and not broken at each > security and bugfixes update of the kernel. As well, I wonder if you > plan to follow this new development guideline. > In general we do, yes. Is there any indication or evidence to the contrary ? If so, please let us know. We are not perfect, and we may miss something once in a while, but we try. And if we do in fact miss something, feedback from others is always welcome. As it looks like, though, this specific problem may be a compiler bug. Not sure if/how we can address that kind of problem in the affected driver. Guenter _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
