Fedora 18 Update: kernel-3.7.2-201.fc18

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-0770
2013-01-14 02:59:05
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Name        : kernel
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 3.7.2
Release     : 201.fc18
URL         : http://www.kernel.org/
Summary     : The Linux kernel
Description :
The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of any
Linux operating system.  The kernel handles the basic functions
of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device
input and output, etc.

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Update Information:

Update to the latest stable upstream kernel, Linux v3.7.2
This update should make it possible to build 3rd party modules against 3.7.1 and contains a number of other fixes.
Update to the latest stable upstream kernel, Linux v3.7.1.
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Jan 11 2013 Justin M. Forbes <jforbes at redhat.com> 3.7.1-1
- Linux v3.7.2
- Enable Intel IOMMU by default
* Thu Jan 10 2013 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Add audit-libs-devel to perf build-deps to enable trace command. (rhbz 892893)
* Tue Jan  8 2013 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>
- Add patch to fix shutdown on some machines (rhbz 890547)
* Mon Jan  7 2013 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>
- Patch to fix efivarfs underflow from Lingzhu Xiang (rhbz 888163)
* Sun Jan  6 2013 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>
- Fix version.h include due to UAPI change in 3.7 (rhbz 892373)
* Fri Jan  4 2013 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>
- Fix oops on aoe module removal (rhbz 853064)
* Thu Jan  3 2013 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com> - 3.7.1-2
- Fixup secure boot patchset for 3.7 rebase
- Package bash completion script for perf
* Thu Jan  3 2013 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Rebase to 3.7.1
* Wed Jan  2 2013 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>
- Fix autofs issue in 3.6 (rhbz 874372)
- BR the hostname package (rhbz 886113)
* Mon Dec 17 2012 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com> - 3.6.11-3
- Linux v3.6.11
* Mon Dec 17 2012 Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us>
- disable gpiolib on vexpress
* Mon Dec 17 2012 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>
- Fix oops in sony-laptop setup (rhbz 873107)
* Wed Dec 12 2012 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com> - 3.6.10-5
- Fix infinite loop in efi signature parser
- Don't error out if db doesn't exist
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #892893 - Enable perf trace utility in Fedora
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=892893
  [ 2 ] Bug #853064 - List_del corruption when removing the module AOE
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853064
  [ 3 ] Bug #892373 - 3.7.1-2.fc18  - include/linux/version.h prevents kernel modules compiling
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=892373
  [ 4 ] Bug #888163 - efivarfs i_nlink underflows during unlinking
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=888163
  [ 5 ] Bug #890547 - The system restarts when doing a shutdown
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=890547
  [ 6 ] Bug #874372 - kernel-3.6... updates break autofs (and consequently shutdown/reboot)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=874372
  [ 7 ] Bug #886113 - hostname: command not found
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=886113
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update kernel' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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