Re: uploading 3.15-rc8

[maximilian attems <maks@stro.at>]

On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 07:43:11PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-06-02 at 09:48 +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
> > Unfortunately it looks like 3.14 will get long term support,
> > hence it is a very likely candidate for the upcoming release.
> 
> How certain is that do you think? There's a bunch of stuff in trunk for
> 3.15 which I would start thinking about porting to the sid branch if
> this was definite... (mostly .config tweaks for variousARM platforms,
> but also the sunxi mmc backport, although that may be infeasible back to
> 3.14).

Here is the public announcement for long term release of 3.14:
https://twitter.com/gregkh/status/468985929231654912

For a newer than 3.14, say 3.16 one would an upstream longterm
maintenance, as gregkh chooses one per year, the dices seem thrown atm.

For Broadwell support this would mean too quite some backports..