Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kernel (47 mails)

[Bruno Friedmann <bruno@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 02/01/2012 05:51 PM, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> Hello,
>
> at SUSE, we are currently discussing the future of merging releases
> from -stable kernel tree[1] into SLE. There is a fear of regressions
> caused in the enterprise distribution as well as a fear of high patch
> count which in most cases cannot be reviewed properly with our power.
>
> I would like to know your opinion about merging -stable kernels into
> *openSUSE*.
>
> This means:
> * do you prefer to stay with the latest stable kernel released at the
> time an opensuse distro becomes available? (And then only single fixes
> for reported bugs are merged.) Or should be -stable releases
> incorporated as soon as they are out (or later).
> * Regarding the parentheses, would you prefer some time to pass before
> a -stable kernel is committed to a particular openSUSE kernel?
> * Did you hit some regression caused by stable releases (this is
> rather information for me personally). If so, how often?
>
> Note that Kernel:stable (and Tumbleweed) will be *unaffected* by the
> result of this thread. It will still follow the latest stable upstream
> release as soon as possible.
>
> Opinions welcome.
>
> [1] The releases numbered by the third numbers after major release
> numbers, e.g. 3.2.1 or 3.2.2.
>
> thanks,

Just for feedback with the 3.1 (and 3.2 actually) my main concern are
arp cache poison
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=741452

and the lack of Alps/Touchpad (half patched resolved by Ismael now) driver


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