[Mageia-dev] kernel 3.0 is a big mistake in cauldron

Sun Jul 17 14:51:01 CEST 2011

Radu-Cristian FOTESCU skrev 16.7.2011 13:47:
+> tmb, I hate you.
+>
+> making kernel-desktop-latest to point to
+> kernel-desktop-3.0.0-0.rc7.2.1.mga2 instead of
+> kernel-desktop-devel-2.6.38.8-5.mga2 was a big mistake.
+>
+
+Nope. It was intended, planned, tested and announced before:
+https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/2011-July/006681.html
+
+> there should have been something like kernel-desktop-latest3 for a
+> while, to let people test that 3.0 thing (rc, right? I know this is
+> cauldron, but I'd still prefer a kernel that works) while still having a
+> 2.6 kernel.
+>
+
+You still have the 2.6.38.8 kernel installed so you can boot it if 3.0 
+does not work.
+
+> this 3.0 kernel is a piece of crap. my acer laptop behaves hectically
+> (now I have a mouse, now it's frozen, now the system claims it will
+> reboot, now I have to press the power button for 5 seconds to shutdown
+> it), bcm4311 doesn't work even with the correct firmware in
+> /lib/firmware/b43, a fully-fledged pita.
+>
+
+Have you filed bugreports here or upstream ?
+
+> reverting to 2.6.38.8-5 brought back the joy (and the wireless internet).
+>
+> but I suppose there won't be any update to the 2.6.38.8 kernel, right?
+
+Nope.
+
+> even for an unstable thing like cauldron this is rather wrong, because
+> 3.0.0 is not a released kernel as of yet. and a working kernel is a
+> precondition to a working distro.
+>
+
+Well it works here. (and for many other Cauldron users).
+
+and both i586 and x86_64 kernels were tested on a i7-860 workstation and 
+on a Acer TravelMate 5720  laptop before submitting to the buildsystem...
+
+
+> forcing an rc-something as the current kernel is... unbenevolent
+> dictatorship.
+>
+
+There is no forcing...
+the old kernel is still installed so you can use it if you need.
+
+And if you dont like automatic kernel upgrades, uninstall kernel-*-latest
+
+
+> yeah, I know, fedora rawhide and kubuntu 11.10 also have this
+> 3.0.0-rc7-crap sort of thing. so you can't have the latest packages
+> (including the latest kde) w/o having a broken kernel. sigh.
+>
+> but my message stands. tmb, I hate you for pushing this kernel as a
+> forced update via kernel-desktop-latest.
+>
+
+Thanks
+
+its always good to know my work is appreciated...
+
+--
+Thomas
+
+