On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 19:58 +0100, Graham Murray wrote: > Alex Legler <a...@gentoo.org> writes: > > > As the maintainers are primarily responsible for providing unaffected > > ebuilds, you'll need to ask the kernel team for exact reasons. > > In all of this we must bear in mind that the kernel team is one of the > fastest to respond to upstream changes, at least with ~arch. New > vanilla-sources are normally in the tree within hours of upstream > releasing them and gentoo-sources are seldom far behind. >
That is quite a bold statement to make considering vanilla-sources-2.6.36_rc7 was never put in ~arch and rc8 has been out from upstream for 3 days now. I imagine there is a reason for that though?