Updating FC2 with FC4 kernel sources
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Wed Jan 4 19:06:28 UTC 2006
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 01:49:32PM -0500, Mark Haney wrote:
> 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?
Indeed. That's exactly where compatability problems come from.
Dave
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