“‘For the last release, I stated that I thought the 2.6.22.12
release would be the last one in the 2.6.22.y series. Since then,
I’ve received a number of other patches that would be nice to have
in the .22.y tree,’ explained Greg KH. He continued:“‘So, for a while, I’ll keep the 2.6.22.y tree open, doing new
releases every once in a while as they accumulate. I do this, for
no other than the selfish reason that I use it every day on my
openSuSE 10.3 boxes as that is the kernel base that release is on
:)…'”