FC 1 - Update to kernel 2.4.24 planned?

[Dave Jones]

On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 22:29, Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Dave Jones wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 16:53, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote:
> > >
> > > Is an update to kernel 2.4.24 planned?
> >
> > No. I've outlined the reasons several times on the lists before.
> > Basically, most of the important bits in .23, .24 and .25pre are
> > backported already.
> 
> Unfortunatly not all of them. A 2.4.23 kernel build from plain sources did
> not break down on USB-serial. At Red Hat 8 I backported the relevant stuff
> from 2.4.23pre7 to 2.4.22 and it worked fine.

Yeah, some of the drivers are lagging a little.

> But the latest Fedora core kernel still has an issue with usb serial as is
> logged under bugzilla id #112806
> Perhaps Greg can check if the backport for usb serial is done correctly?

Pete Zaitcev is looking into a bunch of USB changes for me right now
for a future FC1 update.

	Dave