2.6.24 kernel released...for F7, F8 and F9?

[Andrew Farris]

Jim Cornette wrote:
> drago01 wrote:
>> On Jan 25, 2008 5:01 PM, Lubomir Kundrak <lkundrak at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 09:52 -0600, Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
> 
>> In fedora kernels always got rebased to 2.6.x+1 after a bit of testing
>> I don't see any reason why this should change now. This way we get
>> upstream improvements (new/better hardware support) and bugfixes
>> without having to wait/update to the the next release.
>>
> 
> I like the older releases keeping the older versions. I have to run the 
> older version because of a network lockup which rawhide kernels exhibit.
> kernel-2.6.23.14-107.fc8 works fine at .23
> kernel-2.6.24-0.167.rc8.git4.fc9 introduces bugs in .24
> 
> I'd rather have newer programs and a stabilized kernel. The drivers that 
> I need are available and work excellent before .24 introduced bugs.
> Openoffice.org for rawhide loads quicker and works without problems. 
> Advancements in programs is more important to me than adding and 
> deleting support for kernel level devices.
> 
> fc9 kernels hang at
> 1161 ?        D<     0:00 /sbin/modprobe
> pcmcia:m015Fc000Af06fn00pfn00paA17C320Epb3D011600pc00000000pd00000000
> 
> Whatever that is.
> 
> Jim
> 


You know, there is nothing holding you back from not updating kernels, even if 
.24 versions are backported and pushed out for f7/f8.  The kernels that have 
been built before it are available, and should continue to be until EOL (well, 
forever actually if you just keep a copy for yourself).

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