Subject: Re: 2.6.16-rc4: known regressions
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@mbligh.org>, Gabor Gombas <gombasg@sztaki.hu>,
       "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>,
       penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, bunk@stusta.de, rml@novell.com,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, johnstul@us.ibm.com
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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 19:04:41 +0100
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> They are very reluctant to upgrade kernels today, for released versions
> of the distro, and so they backport kernel fixes and security updates to
> that older kernel, just like all of the packages in a distro.  That's
> they way they work.


fedora actually regularly updates to newer kernels, as service to their
users. (And since kernels still fix more bugs than they create it's a
net win ;)

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