Re: [gentoo-dev] Too many kernels?

[Kumba <kumba@gentoo.org>]

Grant Goodyear wrote:

> # ls /usr/portage/sys-kernel -l | grep -v CVS | wc -l
> 44
> 
> Anybody know which kernels are actually being used?  Which have active
> maintainers?  Given the goal of a quick response to kernel
> vulnerabilities, it seems clear that each kernel needs a redundancy of
> two to three people who can update handle patches when the need arises.
> (That doesn't mean we need 3*44 kernel devs; a high degree of
> overlapping would be fine.)

I'm probably going to dump mips-prepatch-sources (which is an empty 
directory anyways), as I've decided that maintaining -rc, -pre or -bk 
ebuilds becomes too much of a hassle as they move too quickly.


--Kumba

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