Year 2038 time set problem

valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu
Mon Feb 26 10:21:57 EST 2018


On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 14:15:53 +0100, Piotr Figiel said:

> According to kernel.org website 4.1 has projected EOL in May 2018. Is
> the information about kernel releases on kernel.org irrelevant/
> shouldn't be trusted? Or my understanding of longterm kernel trees is
> incorrect?

Do you *really* want to be doing any new development on something that goes off
support in 3 months?

Why are you even looking at 4.1?  That was all the way back in June 2015, and
since then, there have been 220,344 commits totalling:

[/usr/src/linux] git diff --shortstat v4.1 v4.16-rc3
 55263 files changed, 8740289 insertions(+), 2695706 deletions(-)

(Heck, even my Raspberry Pi and my Linksys router are running 4.14 based
kernels :)

And feel free to 'name and shame' if a vendor is doing something that traps you
at that release - that's a vendor behavior that should be discouraged.




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