On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 12:08:00AM +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote: > On Saturday 25 March 2006 00:03, Axel Thimm wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 11:17:07PM +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote: > > > On Thursday 23 March 2006 03:39, Stephen C. North wrote: > > > > ivtv-0.4.3 is called the most recent stable release but it > > > > does not compile against 2.6.15 (some I2C defines missing). > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ I'm gonna kill the fedora guys! The kernel reports > > > itself > > > as a 2.6.15, but it really is a 2.6.16-rc6. Which braindead person > > > made that idiotic decision? > > > > It's hard to tell, as the current versioning scheme was decided some > > ages ago (at least before 2002). The question is why doesn't modern > > Fedora Core fix this. I brought this up, but there will be no change > > of versioning policy. > > I wouldn't have minded so much if only the label was 2.6.15, but the > internal version number is also 2.6.15, even though this kernel has > loads of i2c core changes that are 2.6.16 specific. > > Anyway, I'm going to make a workaround for this, otherwise I'll be > answering these questions for the next few months :-(
I wouldn't bother, because there is only this one kernel rpm with this mismatch, this kernel is flawed in several ways like not being able to load nvidia, ati, madwifi, ndiswrapper and the like, and a replacement kernel (true 2.6.16, rpm also called that way) is already in updates-testing. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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