Two questions about FC1 kernel upgrades

[Dave Jones]

On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 04:56, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> 1) Since I installed FC1 just before Christmas, I have had to do 4
> kernel upgrades in 3 weeks.  Is that an anomalous period, or it's
> always going to be like that in the Fedora world?  I don't remember so many
> kernel updates in a short time like this with RHL8/9. Or I'm getting
> what I'm paying for? :)

There was a large amount of bits and pieces that were missed 
from the release of FC1 -> 2.4.23 release, which I've been trying
to get merged as painlessly as possible. (Ie, not integrating
netdriver updates with networking updates at the same time --
this way works out easier to track things down if there's
a networking regression).

This coupled with 2-3 security updates made it quite a busy time
over the last few weeks. Things should start to slow down real soon.
The current kernel in -testing (2154) has a large number of the
remaining 2.4.23->2.4.25 changes.

Additionally, as we get closer to FC2, I'm focusing more on getting
that in shape than updating the FC1 kernel.

>  Dec 24 14:48 vmlinux-2.4.22-1.2135.nptl 
>  Jan  6 17:50 vmlinux-2.4.22-1.2138.nptl
>  Jan  7 23:19 vmlinux-2.4.22-1.2140.nptl
>  Jan 13 20:40 vmlinux-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl
> 2) What is the history behind these numbers? (2135, 2138, etc)?  It's
> obviously a version number, but was it ever "1"?  (maybe with the first
> RH 2.4.x kernel???)

It's a CVS ident. It gets bumped with each cvs checkin I do.

	Dave