Updating FC2 with FC4 kernel sources

Mark Haney mhaney at ercbroadband.org
Wed Jan 4 18:49:32 UTC 2006


Dave Jones wrote:

>On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 12:55:01PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 11:51:10AM -0500, Mark Haney wrote:
> >  > Are there any gotchas to taking the FC4 latest kernel SRPMS and building 
> >  > a binary RPM with them on FC2?
> > 
> > Lots of things suddenly stop working because the userspace isn't
> > updated. udev, alsa-lib, wireless-tools, yadayada..
>
>Scratch udev off that list, I forgot it wasn't in FC2.
>It might not be /too/ bad, but I wouldn't be surprised if
>some of the other things broke.
>  
>

But wouldn't a vanilla source kernel have the same issues?

>		Dave
>
>  
>


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Mark Haney
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