Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs.

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 7 12:45:32 UTC 2010


On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Jan Wildeboer <jwildebo at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 09/07/2010 02:32 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
>
>> It isn't. We can't possibly guarantee suspend/resume will work on all
>> laptops in anything like a reasonable timeframe. if we set this as a
>> release criterion, we would likely never release. So we don't.
>
> Understood. It is however a royal PITA ;-) In the beginning, F13 was
> unable to use the external VGA at all in a decent manner, this started
> to work after a few kernel updates. So I was a happy camper.
>
> The .34 kernel starts to suspends, switches to the spalsh screen and the
> gets stuck. I didn't notice the first time, so after two hours I had a
> wonderful sauna in my laptop bag and a broken fan.
>
> Now I am back on the previous kernel and can only hope the next update
> will fix it. Will try once again to catch as many inof as possible and
> file a BZ.

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=193772

This one addresses some suspend issues so it is worth testing.


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