On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 03:34:16PM +0100, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > I would need to confirm that, but AFAICS the non-LTS kernels after 3.11 are > all maintained for two years (since they are now made available at "hardware > enablement kernels" for the Ubuntu LTS releases.
Non-LTS kernels can be quite short. [1] visualizes that. For instance once the new LTS and the HWE got backported to the old LTS, all intermediate ones (except base + new LTS) are dropped pretty much instantly. You are also expected to migrate HWEs in the meantime when new ones are made available. Kind regards Philipp Kern [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Support?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=Ubuntu+Kernel+Release+Schedule.png
