On 5/29/07, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.com> wrote:
If your really curious, check the 2.6.19, 2.6.20, & 2.6.21 changelogs at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ for major improvements. For recent minor bug fixes in the 2.6.21 series check changelogs for 2.6.21.1, 2.6.21.2 , 2.6.21.3.
If you find that there is is new functionality available not in the stock OpenSuse 10.2 kernels (2.6.18 based iirc), you might want to consider using one of the Factory kernels. They are less tested, but likely will work fine in non-production environment.
FYI: If you do go through the changelogs, I'd be curious what you find so post a summary back to the list if you don't mind.
I ended up getting curious myself. 2.6.19 - Nothing significant related to Promise TX4 2.6.20 - New maintainer (Mikael Pettersson <mikpe at it.uu.se>). New EH implemented for most Promise TX chip sets. Appears to include hotplug. Not sure about NCQ or TCQ. 2.6.21 - Remaining TX4 chipsets moved to new EH. ATAPI support added (used by CDs/DVDs) 2.6.22-rc3 - Only one patch to fix a typo in flags. Don't know what impact it had. Note that I would be very surprised if any of the above has been back ported to opensuse 10.2. You need a factory or kotd kernel to get the above improvements. Or just wait for 10.3 to come out. (Do we have a target date? Aug. will be 8 months since 10.2) Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org