3.1. kernel

[Michał Piotrowski]

2011/8/23 "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johannbg at gmail.com>:
> On 08/23/2011 01:28 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Genes MailLists<lists at sapience.com>  wrote:
>>>   Dave - any chance you'd put together an F15 2.6.41 based on 3.1?
>> I don't think we're going to move F15 to 3.1 until it has some vetting
>> on F16/rawhide first.  Particularly when it's only in -rc3 at the
>> moment.
>
> Out of curiosity what's preventing us from using 3.x. naming of kernels
> on F15?

I asked the same question some time ago

W dniu 30 czerwca 2011 20:58 użytkownik Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> napisał:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 08:50:17PM +0200, Michał Piotrowski wrote:
>  > I ask out of curiosity - why 2.6.40? Is it a big problem to run 3.0 on F15?
>
> A lot of broken software is assuming version numbers are 2.6.x. We could push a load
> of userspace packages to fix it, but that's just the stuff we control. 3rd party add-ons
> would break for no good reason.
>
> This deviates from what upstream calls it, but it's just a number, and not breaking
> existing code in an update is more important here. For f16 of course, we'll make
> the 3.0 transition, because moving to a new release has differing expectations,
> and by the time it ships, hopefully everything that cares will be fixed.


>
> Or to rephrase it if I install 3.x kernels from koji on an F15 host what
> breaks ( or is expected to break )?
>
> JBG
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