On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:23:01 -0500 John Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > In my case I reported #573135 back in March and stopped taking kernel > updates. In another month or so I'll boot a live USB stick of F14 and > see if the bug was fixed and just didn't get closed. Then it is either > suck it up and run without security fixes or jump distros. > And in the meantime these patches went into the F12 kernel via 2.6.32-stable, but you weren't even checking the updates: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.32.10: commit 6279896e0d676c172f50c046064f889185382eac Author: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Feb 25 21:28:56 2010 -0300 thinkpad-acpi: document HKEY event 3006 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.32.12: commit 1b0d63f15fb79d0cb840f8b701f343548b5640e8 Author: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Feb 25 22:22:22 2010 -0300 thinkpad-acpi: lock down video output state access commit b525c06cdbd8a3963f0173ccd23f9147d4c384b5 upstream. Given the right combination of ThinkPad and X.org, just reading the video output control state is enough to hard-crash X.org. > There really needs to be a change of attitude from "Ooh! Shiny! Ship > it!" to not shipping new until it at least does everything the old did > and reverting when serious bugs appear and can't be quickly patched. > Yes I realize I'm suggesting something that will result in new stuff > taking longer to arrive. You're suggesting something that will result in no kernel update ever being shipped, not even from the -stable kernel series, because even that has caused some regressions. -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
