On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 10:06:38PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
Practically speaking I suppose this is a question directly for Dave
Jones.
But I'm not picky.
Bah, you almost made me feel special.
Fedora Core 4 is going to transition to Legacy status pretty much any
minute
now. There is, however, kernel-2.6.17-1.2143_FC4 sitting in the
updates/testing area. Presumably this will be really pushed before the
cutoff?
That one is kinda pointless, as all it really has is the security fix in 2.6.17.6
for the bug we aren't even vulnerable to.
Is there any chance that there might be one more after that? I know
that FC4
has been pretty closely tracking the FC5 kernel; it'll probably make the job
for the Legacy people much easier if those are as in-sync as possible.
CVS has a kernel based on 2.6.17.7 right now, but there should be a .8 soon-ish,
so I've been waiting on that appearing before devoting much time to it
(and as usual, rawhide has consumed my time since I got back from kernel summit/OLS).
Byt really I ask because I finally sat down and figured out
what's behind my
pet kernel bug, <
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=189812>.
Turns out it's a recently-solved problem, fixed in 2.6.18-rc1. Man oh man
would it make my life easier for the next six months if the official FC4
kernel included this patch in some way or another. (It's been broken since
2.6.16.)
Ouch, that's a nasty one.
Given you've identified the actual cset, I'll ping the -stable people about
this to see if they can get it into .8
If FC4 EOL's before this update is ready, I'll still be around to lend a
hand if needbe.
Dave
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