2.6.33.8-149.fc13.i686.PAE sleeps NOT

[Jerry Feldman]

On 08/26/2010 01:28 PM, JD wrote:
>   On 08/26/2010 09:29 AM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
>   
>> On 08/26/2010 09:06:33 AM, James Mckenzie wrote:
>>     
>>> Geoffrey Leach<geoff at hughes.net>  wrote
>>>       
>>>> Sent: Aug 26, 2010 8:37 AM
>>>> To: Fedora List<fedora-list at redhat.com>
>>>> Subject: 2.6.33.8-149.fc13.i686.PAE sleeps NOT
>>>>
>>>> The newly-released kernel, 2.6.33.8-149.fc13.i686.PAE, wakes up a
>>>>         
>>> few
>>>
>>>       
>>>> seconds after being asked to sleep.  2.6.33.6-147.2.4.fc13.i686.PAE
>>>> does not have this problem. Has anyone experienced this? And perhaps
>>>> discovered a solution? (Bugzilla report against fc12 kernel for the
>>>> same problem was ignored)
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> As an aside, is this for the same kernel release?  It might be nice
>>> to
>>> let them know it also affects Fedora Core 13.
>>>       
>> The FC13 bug is 627664. I mention the FC12 report there. Color me
>> cynical, but I doubt that it will get much attention. OTOH, my
>> experience suggests that its not release-specific.
>>     
> My impression was that kernel bugs are worked on only by
> the mainline devs that release kernels on kernel.org. Is this
> correct?
> If it is, then it will be a long time for fedora to see a fix
> for the kernel bug.
>   
This is not entirely true. Red Hat has a team of kernel people, and they
will fig bugs in the red Hat kernels, and submit their fixes upstream.
Many times the major distros get bug fixes before they get into the
mainline kernel. This is one of the nice things about Open Source.

-- 
Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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