Kernel Modules in Fedora -x

[Les Mikesell]

Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On 8/7/07, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If fedora must send every new and untested
>> change on to the users, how about some easier way to avoid them if they
>> break your hardware, like making kernel updates opt-in within a release
>> version?
> 
> reconfiguring the setting in /etc/sysconfig/kernel  don't provide
> enough protection for you?

If it is expected to not work - and that's been my experience except for 
  FC3 and FC6, that should be the default.  Fortunately through my 
problems with FC5, yum was smart enough not to delete my working kernel 
and cycled through many others which I would try to boot, then pick the 
old one from the grub menu when that failed.  I'm not sure if that is 
still the case, though.

> setting UPDATEDEFAULT=no  should keep your current kernel the default,
> then you can boot to the update kernel when you see fit to.

People seem to be having problems with udev too these days.  Do they 
have to stay in sync?

> -jef"runs updates-testing kernels, so saying things are untested is
> technically incorrect."spaleta

OK, but what happens if they fail testing?  The problem with firewire 
drives not being recognized wasn't unique to my machine - it couldn't 
have worked anywhere.

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   Les Mikesell
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