Kernel 2.6.18?

[Jarod Wilson]

On Aug 29, 2006, at 11:28, Steven Haigh wrote:

> Quoting Jarod Wilson <jwilson at redhat.com>:
>> On Aug 28, 2006, at 11:09, Steven Haigh wrote:
>>> Quoting Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs at math.uh.edu>:
>>>>>>>>> "SH" == Steven Haigh <netwiz at crc.id.au> writes:
>>>>
>>>> SH> Are you sure on this? I'm still seeing 2.6.17-1.2583.fc6 as the
>>>> SH> latest kernel on rawhide.
>>>>
>>>> Which is a prerelease 2.6.18 kernel.  It can't be called 2.6.18
>>>> because that kernel doesn't exist yet.  See the changelog:
>>>>
>>>> * Sun Aug 20 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
>>>>
>>>> - 2.6.18rc4-git1
>>>
>>> Hmmm - I must say I wasn't aware of this... If that the case, I   
>>> wonder if it's possible to get gregkh's full patch put into the   
>>> Fedora kernel.... would certainly make my life much easier :P
>>
>> Looks like Linus is back from vacation (or at least popping in), as
>> 2.6.18-rc5 hit kernel.org on Sunday. That ought to contain everything
>> gregkh was keeping in his tree, and we ought to have a new rawhide
>> kernel based on -rc5 relatively soon...
>
> Doesn't look like (for whatever reason) 2.6.18-rc5 had his patches  
> in it

Looks like we actually switched back to tracking the rc patches  
instead of gregkh patches back there on the 20th... Tracking gregkh  
was only temporary, while Linus was away.

> as there's still the updated USB core stuff as well as i2c/PCI  
> fixes that haven't been migrated into the kernel yet at:
>
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/ 
> gregkh-all-2.6.18-rc5.patch
>
> It's about a 1.1Mb patch, mainly geared towards fixing a number of  
> USB issues as well as a few more drivers (including the adutux  
> drive that I require).

We try to stick to as close to upstream as possible, so once those  
are in Linus' tree, we'll pull them into rawhide, but typically not  
before.

Almost there with a 2.6.18-rc5-git1-based kernel though...

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Jarod Wilson
jwilson at redhat.com