Will Fedora 9 get 2.6.28?

Kevin J. Cummings cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Tue Jan 20 23:16:56 UTC 2009


Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 17:41:14 -0500,
>   aragonx at dcsnow.com wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> The subject says it all really.  I'm running Fedora 9 and want to use
>> EXT4.  I realize there is support in the 2.6.27 but I've read that all the
>> goddies are not in until 2.6.28.  So, will Fedora 9 get it or do I have to
>> upgrade to Fedora 10?
> 
> There was a test build of 2.6.28 for F9 on koji, but more recent builds
> for F9 have been 2.6.27 kernels. So it looks like it is being considered,
> but isn't ready yet. Even for F10 no 2.6.28 kernels have been pushed to
> updates or updates-testing. I am running the 2.6.28.1-17.fc10.x86_64
> kernel right now and it seems to be running OK.

That's amusing because rawhide has kernel-2.6.29-0.43.rc2.git1.fc11

Are we skipping 2.6.28 entirely for 2.6.29?  I'm waiting for gspca 
support for my ALi m5602 webcam which is supposed to be in either 2.6.28 
or 2.6.29....

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