[SECURITY] Fedora Core 5 Test Update: kernel-2.6.17-1.2145_FC5

[Dave Jones]

On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 09:12:54PM +0200, Ronald Warsow wrote:
 > hallo
 > i installed the kernel-2.6.17-1.2145_FC5 on FC5 (to see if bug 196839 
 > 
 > "budget-av: A frontend driver was not found for device 1131/7146 subsystem 153b/1157"
 > 
 > is resolved.
 > it isn't in FC5. (but in FC6 it is !)
 > it boots  (for me !!! no raid installation or something other special things...)
 > 
 > this bug prevents me to run kernels greater than 2.6.16-1.2133_FC5 on FC5.
 > 
 > my questions is:
 > how can kernel-2.6.17-1.2336.fc6 boot & work on my devel installation without this bug ?
 > I mean 2.6.17 comes from kernel.org. aren't they the them tree for FC5 and FC6?

The FC5 kernel is from the 2.6.17.x stable branch.
The FC6 kernel is from teh 2.6.17-git branch which is the development series
working toward 2.6.18.  Right now, there's about 47M of patches difference
between the two trees.

FC5 will get a port of 2.6.18 when it's released (FC4 too if its out before
it reaches end of life).

If the FC6 kernel works for you on FC5, you may want to just stick with
that for the time being.  It'll be slightly slower (as there's some extra
debugging enabled), but it's good to hear that it's stable enough for
regular use.

		Dave

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