experimental 2.6.19 kernel preview.

[Josh Boyer]

On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 09:47 +0100, dragoran wrote:
> Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 12:23:02PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> >
> >  > note that this build doesn't have the fix for the mmap corruption problem
> >  > which got quite a bit of attention last week.  I'll get a fixed build
> >  > up there soon, but in the meantime, tread carefully with this one.
> >
> > I've been working on a 2.6.19 update for FC6 over the last
> > few weeks, and it's starting to feel 'almost ready'.
> > Before I push this out to updates-testing though, I'd rather
> > have a few people 'kick the tyres' to make sure there's
> > nothing really silly wrong with these.
> > [...]
> >   
> I installed it on my x86_64 box It boots and works fine.
> But I found one regression:
> lm_sensors stopped working.
> sensors just displays "General parse error" (maybe a updated package is 
> needed)
> booting into a 2.6.18 kernel solves the issue (sensors works)
> 
> one more thing (not a regression):
> can you enable the ntfs read only driver in the kernel builds? the 
> patent issues are resolved and there is no need to recompile it every 
> time the kernel gets updated.

Um... This is a FC-6 erratum.  Let's not go enabling new stuff in a
released version.  Rawhide is where this should be enabled first.

josh