Thanks for the new FC5 kernel!

[Dave Jones]

On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 01:31:06PM +0100, dragoran wrote:
 > Dave Jones wrote:
 > > On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 08:37:44AM -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote:
 > >  > On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:12:55 -0600, Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
 > >  > 
 > >  > > No problems seen here on my P4 3 GHZ Intel-based PC. Many thanks Dave et
 > >  > > al for your hard work on getting this done. I really appreciate it!
 > >  > 
 > >  > I presume you are referring to 2.6.19-1.2287.fc5.  No such good luck for
 > >  > those of us suffering from the cifs bug.
 > >  > 
 > >  > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211672
 > >  > 
 > >  > The patch was made available about 2-3 weeks ago, but did not make it into
 > >  > this kernel. I suppose it will take some more time for the fix to be
 > >  > incorporated in Fedora kernels.
 > >
 > > The .19 for FC5 was something of a rush, as we wanted to get it
 > > on the same level as FC6 again.  (The rebase also served as a great
 > > learning experience for Chuck, the new Fedora kernel co-maintainer).
 > > Next week we'll be moving both FC5 and FC6 to 2.6.20, which should
 > > include the fix referenced above.
 > >   
 > does this mean that the xen rebase is complete?
 > good news ;)

No. I think that's still likely at least two weeks off.
What we're thinking of doing is pushing out just the non-xen kernels
first, with the xen kernels to follow when they're ready.
It's not a perfect situation, but this way at least means that
people who aren't using xen are held up by the rebase.

		Dave

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