Greetings. We've got a bunch of Fedora systems at work, and we have a policy
of rebooting them each time a new kernel is installed. It seems that lately
there has been a new kernel about once every week or two, and a lot of our
"customers" are frustrated with the frequent reboots.
I thought we might be able to mitigate the problem by doing the reboot only if
there were a really significant change in the kernel, but I'm having trouble
figuring out what the changes are.
One on of the Fedora 9 systems, for instance, we have:
latest installed kernel = vmlinuz-2.6.25.10-86.fc9.i686
kernel currently in use = vmlinuz-2.6.25.9-76.fc9.i686
I ran the following command in the hope of figuring out what changes have been
made lately:
rpm -q --changelog kernel-2.6.25.10-86.fc9.i686
This gives a lot of output, as:
* Mon Jul 07 2008 Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2.6.25.9-86
- Fix USB interrupt handling with shared interrupts.
* Fri Jul 04 2008 John W. Linville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2.6.25.9-85
- Upstream wireless fixes from 2008-07-02
(http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=121503163124089&w=2)
- Apply Stefan Becker's fix for bad hunk of wireless build fixups for 2.6.25
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453390#c36)
.
.
.
* Fri Oct 12 2007 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
- 2.6.23-git2
* Fri Oct 12 2007 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
- Start F9 branch.
Clearly, not all of these changes apply to the transition from 2.6.25.9-76 to
2.6.25.10-86. This makes it hard to assess the significance of that transition.
Is there some place I can find a succinct summary and evaluation of the changes
to the kernel? I'd like something with large print and short words that simply
indicates that the kernel change is or is not related to security, for
instance, and should be or need not be applied immediately.
BTW, I've looked on the Fedora Project web page and haven't yet found what I
want.
Thanks.
-- Mike
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