On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 12:18:19PM -0600, Shuah Khan wrote: > On 04/16/2017 04:48 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.18.49 release. > > There are 145 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response > > to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please > > let me know. > > > > --------- > > Wait, what? 3.18? Wasn't that kernel dead and forgotten and left to > > rot on the side of the road? Yes, it was, but unfortunately, there's a > > few million or so devices out there in the wild that still rely on this > > kernel. Now, some of their manufacturers and SoC vendors might not be > > keeping their kernels up to date very well, but some do actually care > > about security and their users, so this release is for them. If you > > happen to have a vendor that does not care about their users, go > > complain, as odds are, your device is very insecure right now... > > > > Because of this strange situation, and thanks to some vendors backing > > the effort[1], I'll keep 3.18-stable alive in a semi-active mode, doing > > releases every once in a while to keep it up to date and working well > > based on what is happening in other more well-maintained stable kernels > > (hint, use 4.4 or 4.9 or newer PLEASE, if your vendor refuses to do so, > > switch vendors, it's the only way they will learn...) I don't know how > > long I'll keep doing this, so if you care about 3.18, please contact me > > to let me know the expected lifespan of your device. > > > > And finally, due to the delay from the last 3.18-stable kernel release, > > there is a large backlog of patches, this is about 1/2 of the pending > > ones so far. I'll be working on catching up to the rest of them over > > the next few weeks, and then the updates should be smaller than this > > one. > > > > ok, back to your normal form-letter stable -rc release notice: > > --------- > > > > Responses should be made by Tue Apr 18 08:01:19 UTC 2017. > > Anything received after that time might be too late. > > > > The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: > > kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/stable-review/patch-3.18.49-rc1.gz > > or in the git tree and branch at: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-3.18.y > > and the diffstat can be found below. > > > > thanks, > > > > greg k-h > > > > [1] Google's android-common-3.18 will be tracking these releases for > > those of you caring about a working android kernel based on 3.18, I > > recommend using this tree: > > https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/common/+/android-3.18 > > > > Compiled and booted on my test system. I don't have old dmesg logs to > compare. I removed 3.18 and history from my test system. I will keep > 3.10.49 logs for the next release. Ah, thanks for this. Please don't feel like you have to test 3.18 on your system if you don't want to, I know it's a very old kernel... greg k-h