Hi, guys. 2.6.27 is long supported kernel by upstream and could became best alternative for those who want to use more stable kernel. Could you please, update gentoo-sources-2.6.27 patchset and merge in patches up to 2.6.27.38 there? Just simple copy of patches, dropping Makefile hunk from diff and creation of new tarballs is enough. I did with the following commands: for ver in $(seq 21 38); do wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/incr/patch-2.6.27.$(($ver - 1))-${ver}.bz2; done i=20; for ver in $(seq 21 38); do mv patch-2.6.27.$(($ver - 1))-${ver} 10${i}_linux-2.6.27.${ver}.patch ; : $((i++)) ; done vim each patch to drop Makefile hunk tar -jcvf genpatches-2.6.27-12.base.tar.bz2 [1-3]* tar -jcvf genpatches-2.6.27-13.extras.tar.bz2 [4-9]* TIA
Kernel team currently only supports current kernel version and one version back. Right now, 31 and 30.
Heh, that was a good policy while upstream did the same. And now as upstream changed their policy I thought it's good idea to reconcider Gentoo's policy too. These kernels are quite useful for those who don't have a lot of servers to do tests, but still use Gentoo in production. But well, you are masters... OTOH, what do you think if I'll take maintaining of this this kernel in the tree. At least as long as Greg does the same on kernel.org? Do you have tools to automate creation of patches or are you doing everything manually (like I did in comment #0)?
