On Wednesday 01 February 2012 06:18:59 pm Larry Finger wrote:
It is certainly true that as a particular release nears EOL, that kernel is quite dated. In particular, there are a number of devices that are not supported, which forces the users to use work-arounds such as building their own kernels, or installing compat-wireless. I feel we should be able to do better.
Stable kernel branches aren't meant for hardware enablement, so doesn't help either way.
Installing a new stable kernel seems a good idea to me, but not with the 3.x.0 release. There are too many problems not detected by the hardware available to the -rcX testers, but by .2, these have mostly been detected and fixed.
I'm afraid you misunderstood Jiri's question. Let's take a concrete example to make it clearer: openSUSE 12.1 was released with kernel 3.1.0. The first maintenance update which was released one week ago is based on stable kernel 3.1.9. The question is: was it a good idea, or should have we stayed with 3.1.0 for the product's whole lifetime.
If the policy on kernels is changed, there should also be a change in zypper so that at least 2 kernels are kept. That way the user can always fall back to the one they were using.
This would certainly be a good idea, regardless of this discussion's outcome. -- Jean Delvare Suse L3 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+owner@opensuse.org