On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johannbg@gmail.com wrote:
On 05/17/2016 05:25 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
I refuse the premise that the kernel team is going to release a 4.6.x kernel that isn't ready as a 0 day update.
There is more extensive testing performed before GA release then there is in the update process hence what get's shipped in the GA release has better testing coverage regardless of people believes in Red Hat's kernel team hence it's better to ship the 4.6 in the final then to deliver it as an 0 day update.
You're the only person suggesting it would be a zero day update, rather than following the usual kernel rebasing process. The 4.6 kernel is mainline, not stable. I can't recall Fedora shipping with a mainline kernel. If testing coverage is your concern, 4.5.3 will have had more coverage by a lot than 4.6.0 will get in the next two weeks before freeze.
And then what? You expect the kernel team to carry backports for 4.6.0 for a week or two after GA? I don't see the point at all.
Historically it's about a month before a kernel goes stable, and then we'd see 4.6.1 right about when Fedora 24 goes GA, and 4.6.1 would still spend some time in u-t before it'd get to most users. I don't know why you think it'd be a zero day update.