Kernel 2.6.36 broke my CentOS-5 Gnome 2.16 battery info [LWN.net]

Kernel 2.6.36 broke my CentOS-5 Gnome 2.16 battery info

Posted Nov 25, 2010 17:32 UTC (Thu) by dag- (subscriber, #30207)
Parent article: Glibc change exposing bugs

> The rule is simply "we don't break user-space".

Well, I don't know how general that rule is, because kernel 2.6.36 ripped out an important set of /proc/acpi entries that are still used on older Gnome releases (eg. CentOS-5).

A separate project, named ELRepo, provides backported kernel modules, but also the current mainline kernel built specifically for CentOS-5. Which is great for testing/running the latest kernel with a stable and trusted distribution. Since 2.6.36, not anymore, as my laptop couldn't provide proper ACPI information, and as such couldn't suspend/hibernate before running out of power :-(

More information about this, and other breakage is available from:

http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-ml

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Kernel 2.6.36 broke my CentOS-5 Gnome 2.16 battery info

Posted Nov 25, 2010 18:10 UTC (Thu) by dag- (subscriber, #30207) [Link]

I intended to say that ELRepo packages were built specifically on RHEL 5, (but are intended the various RHEL rebuilds as well). In the case of my laptop, it was using CentOS-5 but in the meantime moved to RHEL 6 instead...