On Fri, 2014-07-18 at 22:41 +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 05:43:06PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Thu, 2014-05-01 at 17:29 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > Linux 3.14-stable > > - Supported by Greg for about 2 years after release (March 2014) > > - As an official kernel.org branch, it is likely to get some more > > testing and review, and more backports from upstream maintainers > > > > Linux 3.16-stable > > - Supported by Ubuntu kernel team for about 15-18 months after distro > > release (October 2014) > > - Will support more current hardware and need fewer driver backports > > > > Both of these will be supported until about the same time that wheezy > > reaches EOL, which is when I intend to stop maintaining 3.2-stable. At > > that point, I would be prepared to take over maintainership of either of > > the newer branches. > > > > There's not an obvious winner out of these two options, but we should > > choose fairly soon. Please speak up with arguments either way. > > For Haswell support and in order not to have yet another drm needed > backport, I'd vote for 3.16.
FWIW: me too. Mainly because 3.14 will be pretty old even by the time we freeze, never mind by the time we release. I don't follow it closely but AFAICT the Ubuntu guys do a decent enough job of the existing stable tree(s) which they maintain. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1405718996.26270.38.ca...@hastur.hellion.org.uk
