Am 02.02.2012 17:58, schrieb Bernhard M. Wiedemann:
On 02/01/2012 05:51 PM, Jiri Slaby wrote:
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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*.
[1] The releases numbered by the third numbers after major release numbers, e.g. 3.2.1 or 3.2.2.
I never had trouble with stable upgrades, so upgrading openSUSE-12.1 to lastest 3.1.x should be fine, however those are usually only maintained for some months, until the next release comes out. e.g. https://plus.google.com/111049168280159033135/posts/TS8VGjTp3Rj says, that 3.1.10 already was the last one. so what do we do for the remaining 16 months of openSUSE support?
option 1) Maintain 3.1.x stable kernels ourselves for the remaining time
option 2) Upgrading from 3.1.x to 3.2.x (and later 3.3.x etc) could be an option - but I sometimes had trouble with such changes with drivers that got dropped from staging, replaced by others, new bugs introduced, incompatible userspace, etc.
I'm using the newest stable kernel 3.2.2 even for openSUSE 11.4 without any problems on most of my boxes here (minor first problems occurring with the kernel update could be connect to external errors of tools later) Vote for option 2). Would like to extend this to simply keep the last release in the former 3.(n-1).x kernel in the stable repository still for reference when something is coming up with the newest stable kernel. Today I have to keep a very close eye on changes in ...Kernel:/stable/standard to keep these releases in my private mirror (moving trees), before they are dropped. The latest releases (e.g. 3.1.10) I often didn't get at all because the switch to 3.2.x happened already with 3.1.7 and 3.1x is not offered/compiled any more and deleted. Cheers Ralf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+owner@opensuse.org