Re: Ping Dave Jones: Serious issues with kernel-2.6.17

[Dave Jones <davej redhat com>]

On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 01:24:11AM +0100, Keith G. Robertson-Turner wrote:
 > Lots of sweeping changes in 2.6.17 that I've read about on kernel dev,
 > and a few seem to be badly broken.
 > 
 > I realize that this is +UPSTREAM, but regardless, any progress/comments?
 > 
 > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=196556
 > 
 > Also a few networking issues posted on this list.
 > 
 > I'm only anxious for a kernel upgrade in the hope it will solve an issue
 > with 2.6.16 ACPI poweroff - which it doesn't on my system, currently,
 > but given the state of 2.6.17, I think I might hold out for the next
 > major kernel release, before going anywhere near it.

Not sure what's going on there tbh, but there have been 2-3 reports of
oddness with some device mapper setups.  Hopefully Alisdair (who I've
reassigned that bug to) can make head or tail of it all.

		Dave

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