On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 01:36:12PM +0100, Joschi Brauchle wrote:
Oh really? That's bad for openSUSE 13.2.
The discussion seems stalling again. So, do I understand correctly that we won't do any fixes for openSUSE 13.2 kernel unless explicitly specified in bug reports, right?
I'd like to add some end user perspective (clearly lacking background on the technical problems of a maintenance upgrade):
Thanks, your perspective is valuable.
openSUSE 13.2 has been announced basically everywhere on the net to be *released* with kernel 3.17, even on official openSUSE blogs/pages. If one searches for "opensuse 13.2 kernel version" and reads the articles, not just headlines, the picture one gets is that the beta/rc1 has 3.16 but final will have 3.17.
Looking at the release schedule of 13.1 and the time when 3.17 was released, "going for 3.17" was unrealistic at the time of RC1 milestone. Switching kernel without enough time to do QA up to the same level as the previous kernel got is hazardous.
So for me, seeing a *brand new* openSUSE release with a 3.16 kernel that is not fully supporting some rather popular current hardware and being discontinued soon after release is pretty discouraging.
Do you have an example where the 3.17 kernel enables HW that does not work with 3.16 ? This has been probably mentioned, the obs://Kernel:stable repository follows the kernel.org stable releases so if you really need the newer kernel, adding this repository is straightforward.
Waiting for a 13.3 release might be a gamble as 13.2 took somewhat longer than the usual 8 months and https://en.opensuse.org/Lifetime states that the future release schedule beyond 13.2 is unclear.
I'm trying to understand the reasoning behind that - IOW from a user perspective, I should wait for the next distro release if I want a newer and supported kernel? (Compared to adding the OBS repository with kind of unsupported packages.) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+owner@opensuse.org