Check out bug 248591....just was informed that " The Ubuntu Kernel Team is planning to move to the 2.6.27 kernel for the upcoming Intrepid Ibex 8.10 release. As a result, the kernel team would appreciate it if you could please test this newer 2.6.27 Ubuntu kernel.
" Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > Ben Collins wrote: > >> Upstream doesn't care about testing 2.6.24 any more. >> > But it is useful for us to assess if an issue was introduced in patches > we added to that stable release, or if it was there already. > >> They want us to help test tip. >> > Sure, which is why we should make tip available for both stable and > development releases (currently Hardy and Intrepid). > >> Besides, there's no good base to say "corresponds to hardy's kernel" >> because we stopped syncing at like 2.6.24.2, but we have lots of >> cherry picks for CVE's and SRU's from 2.6.24.y beyond .2. So hardy is >> currently > 2.6.24.2 but < 2.6.24.y head. >> > Then choose either .2 or .y, I would go with .2 personally, and I would > also try not to stop syncing, though I understand there are ABI issues. > > >> So it wouldn't even be beneficial to us to provide a "stock" kernel >> for hardy users. It wouldn't tell us the difference between .y fixing >> it, or stock working because we have a bad patch. >> > But .2 would tell us that. > > >> Ubuntu-next we've already started with. I'm quite reluctant to provide >> it in a PPA. Upstream constantly complains about the quality of bug >> reports from our users, and I fear that this would increase it because >> of non-technical users trying these kernels and not being able to >> properly help debug them. >> > I think we should DROP ubuntu-next. It's more work than any other > option, it's bugs are of no interest to upstream OR US. > > >> IMO, if we really want this PPA stuff, we need more man-power on the >> QA and engineering end of it. Just making it available isn't useful at >> all and would probably cause the reverse with upstream than what you >> want. >> > Please nonetheless put these into your plan, with or without ubuntu-next. > > >> On a similar note, I've considering putting out the idea of adding the >> LP bugzilla plug-in to upstream kernel to make it easier for us to >> forward good bug reports upstream. >> > > That would rock indeed :-) > > Mark > > -- Linux kernel 2.6.24-12 lockup https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204996 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
