Kernel du Jour?

[Dave Jones]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 01:57:49PM -0500, David Cary Hart wrote:
 > On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 13:24 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
 > 
 > > FC3 has a rebase to 2.6.11.x in progress. Madmen^WEarly-adopters
 > > can grab this from http://people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/Fedora/FC3
 > > It'll go to updates-testing really soon, its finally passing my
 > > basic sanity tests, and userspace seems to work ok without any
 > > other updates. (Though you can guarantee I've missed something).
 > > 
 > > FC4 is aiming for a 2.6.12 release, so it's on 2.6.11 for test1
 > > In a day or so, it'll jump to 2.6.11-bkX
 > > 
 > > 		Dave
 > Thanks Dave. So the interim releases by Linus will continue on a regular
 > basis for all future kernels?

Yes, except for when a release is nearing end of life, due to the
resources needed to clean up any fallout afterwards.

 > I notice that FC has typically included at
 > least some snapshot (.bkx) material anyway, as the kernel matures (or at
 > least I thought so). 

Ideally, -bk snapshots only end up in rawhide.
Though with Fedora releases being uncoupled from upstream kernel releases
the two don't always match up, so sometimes in the past we've had to ship
a release with -rc4-bk8 or so, and then when the real point release
has happened, we've pushed it out as an update.

After a release, I tend to stay away from -bk snapshots as so much
can (and usually does) break on a daily basis.  In the past post-release
I've picked up Alan's -ac patchset as a quick-and-easy way to scoop
up most of the fixes that we've got.  Hopefully 2.6.x.y will work out
well so we can use that without needing to take some of the more
experimental bits from Alans tree.

		Dave