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Hi everyone, |
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This is one of those rare situations where there are enough serious bugs |
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against the kernel that we may have to rapid stabilize |
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hardened-sources-3.2.59-r5 and 3.14.5-r2. These are currently marked ~ |
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because I need feedback from users. So please try to upgrade to either |
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one (3.2 is preferred for mission critical) and give me feedback. The |
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only caution is do not enable KSTACKOVERFLOW, a new option which is know |
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to cause panics, eg virtio iface. |
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Within the next few days I will mark those stable if they pass. And a |
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few days later I will start to prune the older stables that are |
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susceptible to 3153. |
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A note to what ~ means. ~ does not mean "unstable". I know that we say |
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a package on an arch is "stable" when we remove the ~, but adding the ~ |
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doesn't make it "unstable". It means its of an unknown state. So |
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please read ~ as "test me!" The kernel is unlike most packages in that |
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it is vast and at any given time has dozens of bugs or other problems. |
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You'll never have a prefect kernel, only one that is "good enough". I |
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will only know its "good enough" if you don't complain. And you |
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complain via bugs so that when my spider senses suggest its time for a |
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new kernel, i look through the bugs and see which one is "good enough". |
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Anthony G. Basile, Ph. D. |
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Chair of Information Technology |
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D'Youville College |
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Buffalo, NY 14201 |
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(716) 829-8197 |
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