Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel

[Bill Davidsen]

Lee Revell wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 11:17 -0500, Mark Lord wrote:
>
> > > > > Ahh OK .. I don't use it, so wouldn't have been affected. That's one
> > > > > userspace interface broken during the series, does anyone have any more?
> >
> > Ah.. another one, that I was just reminded of again
> > by the umpteenth person posting that their wireless
> > no longer is WPA capable after upgrading from 2.6.12.
> >
> > Of course, the known solution for that issue is to
> > upgrade to the recently "fixed" latest wpa_supplicant
> > daemon in userspace, since the old one no longer works.
> >
> > Things like this are all too regular an occurance.
>
>
> The distro should have solved this problem by making sure that the
> kernel upgrade depends on a new wpa_supplicant package.  Don't they
> bother to test this stuff before they ship it?!?

Could you provide a little detail on the technology by which a distro 
checks for functionality against a kernel which wasn't necessarily 
released when the distro shipped. My udev doesn't generate /dev/timewarp.

Going to a new kernel in the same series shouldn't have to be treated as 
if it were a change to a whole new operating system, and shouldn't 
require completely replacing existing utilities with new ones which 
aren't backware compatible to allow fallback to the original kernel.

--
   -bill davidsen (davidsen@xxxxxxx)
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
 last possible moment - but no longer"  -me

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