Kernel Longevity - Making the same mistakes again?

Cedrik · 02-05-2012, 07:17 PM

Of course this rarely happens, the NPTL implementation of pthreads is the only relevant info I found about Linux kernel version compatibility in glibc docs

wildwizard · 02-06-2012, 01:58 AM

This is a moot point when most Slackware kernel patches are in fact patches applied to the kernel not a new kernel.

There is also no restriction on Slackware releasing a different minor 3.x kernel as a patch in the future.

Old_Fogie · 02-06-2012, 02:10 AM

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Given that 3.0 has been announced as a long-term kernel by Greg K-H and will be supported for at least 2 years, wouldn't it make sense to stick with this as the official stock kernel in current, and provide any later ones in extra/ ?

For my own selfish reasons, my answer is "no".

2nd Gen Sandy Bridge hardware is broken on 3.0.X imo.

Also realteak and broadcom wireless have so many connect/reconnects as well.

These issues seem fixed in 3.1.7 and greater.

Tho 3.2.2 had some funky wifi drops/resets as well, but they've been fixed in 3.2.4

Cheers.

Petri Kaukasoina · 02-06-2012, 03:23 AM

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Well, Greg is the upstream stable kernel maintainer, so I'm inclined to pay attention to what he says, but fair enough.

It is likely that other distros who have their own kernel teams will maintain their own patch-sets, but I don't think many Slackers are likely to use a Redhat or Canonical patch-set over a kernel.org kernel, but I guess it is possible.

I guess Tim Garder will take over kernel.org 3.2: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/11/91
I don't think it's more of a problem for Slackware users that he works for Canonical than it has been a problem that Greg has worked for SUSE.

the3dfxdude · 02-06-2012, 07:47 AM

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Tho 3.2.2 had some funky wifi drops/resets as well, but they've been fixed in 3.2.4

Can you point me to the patches that are supposed to fix wifi drops? I would like to test this.

Old_Fogie · 02-06-2012, 01:11 PM

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Originally Posted by the3dfxdude

Can you point me to the patches that are supposed to fix wifi drops? I would like to test this.

sure, ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kerne...Log-3.2.33.2.3 & 3.2.4 are effectively the same so here's the changelog.Prior to this fix, I had wicd rmmod all the wifi modules the modprobe them back, restart my net services and then rejoin the wifi network.Thanks to this fix, my wicd scripts directory is empty now