Future kernel version number for F-15

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Wed Jan 11 18:19:40 UTC 2012


On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Nicolas ViƩville
<nicolas.vieville at univ-valenciennes.fr> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> This is my first post on this list, so little introduction. I
> co-maintain the wl-kmod and broadcom-wl packages for rpmfusion
> repository. My natural language is french, and my English skill is not
> very good.

Your English seems quite good to me.

> The question
>
> A recent change in kernel 3.2 ABI needs patching wireless kernel modules
> sources in order to compil. As F-15 seems to use kernel 3.x series
> renamed with this motif 2.6.4x, I wanted to know if the future kernel
> versions numbers for F-15 will keep this scheme? If I understood it
> correctly, in this case next one will be 2.6.42.y-z (for 3.2) and will
> be followed by 2.6.43.y-z (for 3.3) etc. Knowing this exactly will make
> it easier to build the C preprocessor macro for the wireless kernel
> modules sources patch for both F-15/F-16.

Yes, when F15 is rebased to 3.2, it will be called 2.6.42 and 3.3
would be 2.6.43.

josh


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