On 07.06.2007 22:35, Dave Jones wrote: > On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 10:08:53PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > > On 07.06.2007 21:17, Dave Jones wrote: > > > [...] > > > libata. > > > ~~~~~~~ > > > Looking at the incoming bugs, this seems to be the biggest area > > > where we have problems. No surprise really given the switchover > > > to new pata drivers. Though there are quite a few SATA bugs too. > > > I'm not sure what more we can do here other than keep pointing > > > Jeff & Alan at them, and hoping for the best. > > > We knew this was going to be bumpy first time around, so hopefully > > > for F8 we'll have most of the kinks worked out here, and won't > > > have introduced (m)any new problems. > > > > My 2 cent on this one: it might be a good idea to have test kernels for > > stuff like this that people can install on "Fedora (current)"; I for one > > would install them on some of my machines for testing purposes; I > > normally switch to rawhide only at test2 or test3. > You mean something like "F7 kernel for F6" ?
Yes. > The problem with that is the slew of userspace updates that would > have been necessary. Could be shipped in the same repo. Sure, one could just enable devel; but suppose you need to build a module and you are out of luck if rawhide gcc != Fedora (current()) gcc > The initrd changes alone were pretty extensive. > I *still* get the creeps about changing /dev/hda -> /dev/sda in > a yum update. It works for most people, but I've been burnt by it, > and I know some users have. For massive changes like that, it > wouldn't really have helped much. Booting the livecd and having > a "yes, I can see my hard disks" report from users would have had > more value I think than reports from hybrid FC6 w/F7 bits systems. In this case: maybe; in other cases it might be something else. > > BTW, there is a lot of talk about the RHEL5 and the RL-kernel. See > > > http://www.press.redhat.com/2007/06/05/emerging-technologies-developments-in-red-hat-enterprise-linux-realtime/ > > I suppose we are waiting for the bits to go upstream? > Yes. k, was just wondering. BTW, thanks for your work davej; much appreciated. Cu thl _______________________________________________ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list
