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Jaunty not even getting security updates.Jaunty not even getting security updates.Posted Nov 25, 2010 17:38 UTC (Thu) by dag- (subscriber, #30207)In reply to: Jaunty not even getting security updates. by error27 Parent article: Kernel prepatch 2.6.37-rc3
> The rule is that you don't break userspace. It's a very simple rule to understand.
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:
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Jaunty not even getting security updates. Posted Nov 25, 2010 18:59 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] Have you complained to the ACPI developers and gotten this listed as a regression? That might just get it fixed. (Not that I know anything about this particular issue).
Jaunty not even getting security updates. Posted Nov 25, 2010 19:28 UTC (Thu) by dag- (subscriber, #30207) [Link]
I guess we didn't really consider these to be regressions, nor did we expect kernel developers to consider us, humble users of old but stable distributions ;-) However it would fit our goal for the kernel-ml offering to help upstream as much as possible with issues.
These kernels are not intended for production use, but provided as-is and as a means to help users to find newer drivers that can be backported, or detect regressions with drivers known to work. (Although they can be very useful nevertheless...)
I'll discuss this with the other team-members and see if they agree to report these upstream. Thanks for mentioning, Jon !
Jaunty not even getting security updates. Posted Nov 26, 2010 4:11 UTC (Fri) by promotion-account (guest, #70778) [Link] I guess we didn't really consider these to be regressions, nor did we expect kernel developers to consider us, humble users of old but stable distributions ;-) The kernel community usually take such issues very seriously, please report. If you want maximum effect, CC linus in the process with a subject like '2.6.36' breaks XXXX userspace' ;)
Small correction Posted Nov 25, 2010 19:30 UTC (Thu) by dag- (subscriber, #30207) [Link]
I intended to say that ELRepo packages were built specifically on _RHEL 5_, (but are intended for the various RHEL rebuilds as well). In the case of my laptop, it was using CentOS-5 but in the meantime I moved to RHEL 6 instead...
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