linux-kernel - Re: Please release a stable kernel Linux 3.0

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Message-Id: <200706260120.13940.rjw@sisk.pl>
Date:	Tue, 26 Jun 2007 01:20:12 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>
Cc:	Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>,
	Zoltán HUBERT <zoltan.hubert@...ero.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Please release a stable kernel Linux 3.0

On Monday, 25 June 2007 18:38, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> On 06/24/2007 04:54 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Friday, 22 June 2007 19:11, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> >> On 06/22/2007 11:00 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> >>> On Friday, 22 June 2007 00:34, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> >>>> On 06/21/2007 06:29 PM, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> >>>>> I myself have argued that we should be focusing more on stability and
> >>>>> regression fixing, but I'm not so sure that a 2.6.7 devel branch would
> >>>>> solve this. In general the 2.6.x.y -stable kernels seem to be doing
> >>>>> the job pretty good.
> >>>>>
> >>>>  
> >>>> Even the good ones that get lots of fixes aren't all that good. The
> >>>> biggest problem ATM is that suspend is badly broken and keeps getting
> >>>> worse...
> >>> Can you please provide me with any links to suspend-related bug reports from
> >>> you?
> >>>
> >> I get so many suspend/resume bug reports that I've given up trying
> >> to get them fixed. And there are so many bugs that are even worse,
> >> like crashes during normal use, data corruption, etc. that suspend
> >> bugs don't get much attention. But here are the ones for Fedora 6;
> >> the list would be much longer if I included Fedora 5 and 7:
> > 
> > Can you please tell me what's the relationship between Fedora kernel vesions
> > and the kernel.org kernels?
> > 
> 
> Fedora kernels are as close to upstream as we can get them, but we do add Xen,
> Roland's utrace and exec-shield. The list of applied patches may be a bit long
> but most of them are bug fixes that we couldn't get into -stable for one reason
> or another (some not upstream yet, some judged too big for -stable.)

OK, thanks.

Still, I know that, for example, the Fedora 2.6.21-1.3193.fc8 kernel is in fact
2.6.22-rc3 (see http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7988#c11).  Is there
a straightforward way to 'decode' such names? ;-)

Greetings,
Rafael


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