Would the F17 policy have problems with a 3.2.7 kernel?

Dominick Grift dominick.grift at gmail.com
Tue Apr 3 17:59:46 UTC 2012


On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 19:37 +0200, Göran Uddeborg wrote:
> I would like to move on towards an F17 system.  I'm stuck, however
> with an 3.2.7 kernel because of bugzilla 795141.  (The test kernel
> that was provided in the bugzilla works for me, but so far the fix
> doesn't seem to have been included in any released kernel package.)
> And the standard F17 kernel is 3.3.0.
> 
> Most things won't actually depend on the newer kernel in F17, but from
> experience I've learned that the selinux-policy is one of the more
> sensitive parts.  Are you aware of any reason it will fail with the
> slightly older kernel?  Or is there a chance it might work?  At least
> reasonably well?
> 
> I'm of course not asking for any kind of official support.  Whatever
> that would mean for an alpha of Fedora. :-) But before I do the
> attempt I wanted to check if you saw any obvious reasons things would
> crash completely if I tried the combination.

I suspect that things might work but do not shoot me if i am wrong

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