On 2018-04-09 03:18, George from the tribe wrote:
On 04/09/2018 09:14 AM, Simon Lees wrote:
On 09/04/18 10:20, George from the tribe wrote:
openSUSE uses the same kernel numbering scheme as the rest of the world, but kernel naming schemes can be deceptive.
SUSE has its own team of kernel maintainers so while 4.12 is no longer maintained upstream openSUSE isn't running the upstream kernel its running the upstream kernel with a series of patches by SUSE kernel developers. Some of these maybe features but most are fixes or support for additional drivers taken from newer kernels. So while upstream has stopped supporting kernel 4.12 SUSE developers will continue to backport fixes and drivers into SUSE/openSUSE's version of the kernel.
You may for example have a new fancy device that wasn't originally supported in upstream kernel 4.12 but is supported in kernel 4.15, there is a reasonable chance that a SUSE engineer somewhere may have already ported support for that device into SUSE/openSUSE's version of kernel 4.12, so in this way and many others including security fixes just looking at the kernel number is wrong without also looking at which source "tree" the kernel has been built from.
Ok, that would explain why the original kernel in 42.2 didn't support the wireless card in my laptop but the kernel in the kernel:stable repo had the patch necessary to support it. Thanks, that makes sense now.
Well, that's precisely an example of the system not working :-) But if the kernel in 42.3 supports it, that would be a match. -- Cheers/Saludos Carlos E. R. (testing openSUSE Leap 15.0, at Minas-Anor) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org