ExtendedStable
Stable Kernel Updates
The Ubuntu Kernel Team provides a git repo available to the greater Linux community which provides stable patches for certain versions of the Linux kernel.
Repository
The repository is available at git://kernel.ubuntu.com/<location> (TODO: location to be defined, may be stable/linux-stable.git?), and has the following branches:
master |
tracks the Linus master tree |
linux‑<version>.y |
stable tree for linux <version> release, final patches releases go to this |
linux‑<version>.y‑review |
last release of stable tree for <version> release, with patches on top to be considered and reviewed for next stable release for <version> series |
linux‑<version>.y‑queue |
last release of stable tree for <version> release, with patches on top already reviewed and ready to go, that will be released with next <version> stable update |
Builds
We will be hooking the stable tree up with our automated build and testing infrastructure. The built binaries will be available for download and installation.
Announcements
New releases of stable patches will be announced at kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com, the linux kernel mailing list (lkml) and the stable mailing lists. (TODO: any other mailing list?)
Contributing
Anyone can contribute with patches to any stable release maintained by the Ubuntu Kernel team. To do so, just send the patch to kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com mailing list. Any patch sent must conform to the upstream stable rules (listed at Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt in the upstream kernel source tree).