From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756239AbXFYQiw (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jun 2007 12:38:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752259AbXFYQip (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jun 2007 12:38:45 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:58768 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751925AbXFYQio (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jun 2007 12:38:44 -0400 Message-ID: <467FEF6E.9050908@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 12:38:06 -0400 From: Chuck Ebbert Organization: Red Hat User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070530) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" CC: Jesper Juhl , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Zolt=E1n_HUBERT?= , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Please release a stable kernel Linux 3.0 References: <200706212349.54983.zoltan.hubert@zzaero.com> <200706221700.08135.rjw@sisk.pl> <467C02AA.2080105@redhat.com> <200706242254.59695.rjw@sisk.pl> In-Reply-To: <200706242254.59695.rjw@sisk.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.)