On 03/12/2013 02:03 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Mar 12, 2013, at 10:35 AM, Reindl Harald
<h.reindl(a)thelounge.net> wrote:
>
> Am 12.03.2013 17:32, schrieb Chris Murphy:
>> On Mar 12, 2013, at 6:02 AM, Jiří Eischmann <eischmann(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>> New kernels bring a lot of
>>> regressions and we don't have enough test coverage to avoid them. The
>>> general solution to those problems is to go back to the last working
>>> kernel version. But by making it less obvious we make these frequent
>>> problems more difficult to solve.
>> This is completely specious. A user who considers falling back to an
>> older kernel as a troubleshooting step also knows how this selection
>> is made and where to go look for it
> THIS IS WRONG
Oh really?
Yes, it is wrong. We're not talking about just new users here. If
you're going to hide how to select a different kernel, how am I, an
experienced sysadmin supposed to figure it out when things go south?
F18 screwed my computer royally with regards to sleep & restore and I
had to boot older kernels to get the machine stable. As it stands,
there were a list of kernels I chose the upper most one which didn't
have problems...under what people are proposing I'd have to google it on
some other machine or just mash the keyboard and hope I find something
that gives me some options
I don't know why people are so enamored by making it difficult to
troubleshoot problems.