is git.kernel.org the best place for stable releases ?

Jim Cromie jim.cromie at gmail.com
Wed Mar 16 16:39:42 EDT 2011


ahh thanks.
I searched, and stopped at the 1st hit.

heres the correct one.
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.32.y.git;a=summary

linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.32.y.git	2.6.32-stable tree	Greg
Kroah-Hartman	2 months ago	summary | shortlog | log | tree | git

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 01:47:28PM -0600, Jim Cromie wrote:
>> OpenWrt is apparently using a stable release that isnt on kernel.org
>>
>> Bartman007 wrote:
>>
>> 23 November 2010
>>
>> The OpenWrt Release Team would like to announce a fourth release
>> candidate (RC4) for Backfire Interim Release 1 (10.03.1).  Testing of
>> this release candidate will allow further refinement of 10.03.1
>>
>> * 2.6.32 targets updated from 2.6.32.16 to 2.6.32.25
>>
>>
>> OpenWrt 10.03 is running 2.6.32.10, which is still ahead of kernel.org
>>
>>
>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/smb/smb-2.6.32.y.git;a=commit;h=7f5e918e62cbc9ac27c2f47d3c3dd4b86f67ff0e
>>
>> 2010-02-23    Greg Kroah...   Linux 2.6.32.9 master origin/HEAD
>> origin/master v2.6.32.9
>>
>> stefan.bader at canonical.com is the branch/tree owner, ccd,
>> FYI to kernelnewbies.
>
> Um, you are not looking at the correct stable kernel branch on
> git.kernel.org.  I just released 2.6.32.33 the other day, so it looks
> like you are just looking at an older kernel tree that has not been
> updated.
>
> good luck,
>
> greg k-h
>



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