Fedora Core 5 Test Update: kernel-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5

Gilbert Sebenste sebenste at weather.admin.niu.edu
Tue Sep 12 03:17:10 UTC 2006


Dave Jones writes, re: kernel updates...

> Every change should have an entry in the changelog.  The only exception
> being the "abbreviated" changelogs for the upstream rebases.
>
> For eg..
>
> * Sat Sep  9 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
> - 2.6.17.13
>
> This means that every patch that is listed at
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.17.13
> is included in this build, and for more info check there.
>
> every other change, even if its just changing a CONFIG_ option,
> should get a changelog entry.  Occasionally I'll slip up and
> forget to changelog something, but that's usually a rare case.

Got it. Thanks!

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