On Thursday 05 December 2013 08.58:28 Felix Miata wrote:
On 2013-12-05 12:28 (GMT+0100) Takashi Iwai composed:
Since 3.11.y maintenance was discontinued by Greg, Ubuntu took over it. It made me wonder: are we willing to continue 3.11.y for openSUSE 13.1 updates, just relying on Ubuntu? Or, can we just move on 3.12.y?
Fedora 17 Fedora 18 Fedora 19 Fedora 20 Release kernel 3.3.4 3.6.10 3.9.5 3.11.10 Updates latest 3.9.10 3.11.9 3.11.9 -------
Given kernel history for Fedora, I wonder about the apparent conservatism for update kernels for openSUSE. I've never been able to observe a problem using a kernel from Kernel:/stable/standard instead of an official kernel in any openSUSE release. What's the risk in moving up officially?
Well there's always a risk, for example a working v.1x driver for a storage adapter suddendly bump to 2.x and doesn't work anymore, or need firwmware update etc ... (I face that one with still two kind of controler not being able to work since 3.2 kernel :-() I'm not against but we have to put it in longer queue, and/or ask for more testing kernel-stable to Be sure everybody knows. -- Bruno Friedmann Ioda-Net Sàrl www.ioda-net.ch openSUSE Member GPG KEY : D5C9B751C4653227 irc: tigerfoot -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+owner@opensuse.org