Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kernel (25 mails)

[Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:18:56AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > Just a quick FYI that after the 11.0 branch announcement, the HEAD
> > > kernel has been rebased to 2.6.26-rc5-git5. Updates will be ongoing.
> >
> > Thanks a lot for doing this.
> >
> > > Once 11.0 is officially released, this will be updated as the FACTORY
> > > kernel. Until then, packages will be available via the KOTD site at
> > > http://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/kernel/kotd/HEAD/
> >
> > I'm considering what would be involved in updating the version that is
> > in the "normal" 11.0 update repos to 2.6.26, when it is out and we seem
> > to have tested it pretty well in FACTORY.  It would be nice to offer
> > this for the increased number of bug fixes, and new hardware support.
> > But it would be something new from what we have done before, and I don't
> > know how people would react to it.
> >
> > Any opinions?
>
> I believe it is 'too dangerous'. We tested 2.6.25 in betas and rcs,
> while 2.6.26 would be just dumped to users.

With some testing first of course :)

> OTOH, having easy way of installing 2.6.26 _in addition_ to 2.6.25
> kernel would be nice ...
>
> I guess adding 2.6.26 into boot menu as an non-default option by
> update would be acceptable compromise?

That sounds fine to me.

thanks,

greg k-h
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