KernelTrap: Maintaining a 2.6.16.y Tree

“With the release of the 2.6.16 Linux kernel, Adrian Bunk
reiterated his previously debated intention of maintaining the
2.6.16.y kernel tree well into the future. The first 2.6.x.y
release was 2.6.8.1 by Linux Torvalds, a quick one line fix for
NFS. The idea was revisted a few months later in October of 2004,
but didn’t actually gain momentum until March of 2005. Beginning
with the 2.6.11 kernel, the process was formalized with Greg KH and
Chris Wright officially maintaining 2.6.x.y releases until
2.6.(x+2) is released. For example, stable patches will be applied
to the current 2.6.16.y kernel by Greg and Chris until 2.6.18 is
released sometime well in the future…”

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