On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 06:37:43PM +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> On 2014-03-07 16:40, Hannu Nyman wrote:
> > So far I have not seen any response from the devs, which is a bit 
> > disappointing :-(
> > 
> > In any case, I thought to add that apparently 3.12 has been named a 
> > "long-term kernel" last week:
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/2/26/596
> > https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html
> > 
> > But I guess that Openwrt has already gone past the possibility of using 
> > 3.12, 
> > as some platforms are already at 3.13 and 3.14 got first checkins today.
>
> We're still working on our build infrastructure for the release.
> As for the kernel version: The important targets that should get a
> binary release are still at 3.10.
>

That sounds good! 

> I think some targets have been upgraded because they depend on new
> kernel infrastructure where a backport is not feasible, and such targets
> do not need to be maintained for the release in the same way as the others.
> At this point it does not make sense to destabilize the main targets by
> updating them to 3.12, because the amount of time necessary to stabilize
> them would further delay a release.
> 

Makes sense.
Thanks a lot for the reply and the info!

-- Pasi


> - Felix
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