On Jan 25, 2008 5:01 PM, Lubomir Kundrak <lkundrak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 09:52 -0600, Gilbert Sebenste wrote: > > I hope a kernel developer can jump on here, but... > > > > Is it possible that we will see this new kernel for F7, F8 and F9? > > I'm sure F9 will have it, per the ones you've been running for Koji, > > but what about these? I'd love to see one for F7, but I'm thinking it is > > so late in the support period that this may not happen. > > > > Thoughts? Concerns? Utter chaos and panic? :-) > > I thought things never get backported for Fedora kernels, but the > kernels get rebased to what is current stable when a need to do an > update arises (possible a security flaw or something). I do not know > whether it is a documented policy though. > > On the other side the version number is no reason to do an update. And > you mentioned no fixes or enhancements that do you consider important > other that the version number. If there are some, I think filing a > report in Bugzilla won't hurt. In fedora kernels always got rebased to 2.6.x+1 after a bit of testing I don't see any reason why this should change now. This way we get upstream improvements (new/better hardware support) and bugfixes without having to wait/update to the the next release. -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
