[gentoo-amd64] Kernel 2.6.25

[gentoo-amd64] Kernel 2.6.25

[Mark Haney]

Just out of curiosity, what's taking so long with releasing the .25 
kernel to stable?  I don't recall any kernel before taking this long to 
be released.

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Kernel 2.6.25

[Davide Cittaro]

On Jun 24, 2008, at 3:50 PM, Mark Haney wrote:

> Just out of curiosity, what's taking so long with releasing the .25  
> kernel to stable?  I don't recall any kernel before taking this long  
> to be released.


Good question. BTW I'm running 2.6.25.8 (vanilla) and it works  
perfectly...

d

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Kernel 2.6.25

[Mark Haney]

Davide Cittaro wrote:
> 
> On Jun 24, 2008, at 3:50 PM, Mark Haney wrote:
> 
>> Just out of curiosity, what's taking so long with releasing the .25 
>> kernel to stable?  I don't recall any kernel before taking this long 
>> to be released.
> 
> 
> Good question. BTW I'm running 2.6.25.8 (vanilla) and it works perfectly...
> 
> d
> 

I'm getting ready to do the same.  I'm pretty sure it will work great, 
as always.  The fact is, it wasn't until I realized that I had not 
received a stable copy of the kernel in quite a while that I asked.  I 
don't always go with ~amd64 just because I don't think about it.



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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Kernel 2.6.25

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

Mark Haney wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, what's taking so long with releasing the .25 
> kernel to stable?  I don't recall any kernel before taking this long to 
> be released.
> 
There were at least some major VMware issues. I don't know what else. 
But yeah, Fedora and OpenSUSE both shipped with 2.6.25.
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Kernel 2.6.25

[Christoph Mende]

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On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:50:51 -0400
"Mark Haney" <mhaney@ercbroadband.org> wrote:

> Just out of curiosity, what's taking so long with releasing the .25 
> kernel to stable?  I don't recall any kernel before taking this long to 
> be released.
> 
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218127

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Kernel 2.6.25

[Beso]

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2008/6/24 Mark Haney <mhaney@ercbroadband.org>:

> Davide Cittaro wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jun 24, 2008, at 3:50 PM, Mark Haney wrote:
>>
>>  Just out of curiosity, what's taking so long with releasing the .25
>>> kernel to stable?  I don't recall any kernel before taking this long to be
>>> released.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Good question. BTW I'm running 2.6.25.8 (vanilla) and it works
>> perfectly...
>>
>> d
>>
>>
> I'm getting ready to do the same.  I'm pretty sure it will work great, as
> always.  The fact is, it wasn't until I realized that I had not received a
> stable copy of the kernel in quite a while that I asked.  I don't always go
> with ~amd64 just because I don't think about it.
>
>
well you could just try it out when it gets out. just put it in
package.unmask and remove the symlink use flag. in this way you could just
test it out whenever you like. i do the same and if the new versions
satisfie me then i stay with them.

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Kernel 2.6.25

[David Relson]

On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:27:33 +0200
Christoph Mende wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:50:51 -0400
> "Mark Haney" <mhaney@ercbroadband.org> wrote:
> 
> > Just out of curiosity, what's taking so long with releasing the .25 
> > kernel to stable?  I don't recall any kernel before taking this
> > long to be released.
> > 
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218127

FWIW, while using 2.6.25 I encountered a problem that was resolved by
switching to 2.6.24.

With a 2.6.25 kernel and linux-headers-2.6.25, vmware-server wasn't
happy.  More precisely, attempts to load vmnet.ko (for example using
'modprobe vmnet.ko') would log the following:

   vmnet: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module

in /var/log/messages.  This occurred even with rebuilds of the kernel
and the module.  Since switching to 2.6.24 (with 2.6.25's .config file
as the basis of the 2.6.24 .config file), all has been fine.

Regards,

David
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