On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 08:42:38PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 03:51:46PM +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote:
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 :)
No way. Thats what the BETA and RC phase was for, we cannot do this for the released product.
So, you are saying that the kernel developer community doesn't test their kernel releases enough for you? :)
What would you like the kernel developers to do in order for you to feel better about doing exactly what Fedora does here (remember, they have more users and they do this all the time...)
This is more a question to pose to Coolo or Michael Loeffler. We do at least Beta testing against our users during the development cycle of several months. Suspend to anything ... breaks models or does not break models... Wireless testing ... Any kind of userland interaction. I really wonder that Fedora is not falling on their noses with this. And we are different from Fedora. ;)
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.
But this will be very difficult to do and error prone. :(
Why? It shouldn't be that hard to tell the bootloader to not mark this kernel as the main one to install.
Have you ever seen the perl-Bootloader bugs? We had like 200+ of them sinc SUSE Linux 10.1 ... This piece of "code" would be involved here, and I do not trust it. Ciao, Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org