Using updates-testing was [Re: Device change for Sil 3112 in latest kernel]

[Alan Cox]

On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 02:20:58AM +0200, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
> is moving _very_ fast(and stable) and in Fedora there is no enough
> 'hacker power' to do backports of _all_ new features/fixes/... that
> upstream brings.
> I can *not* understand how FC-1 still has a 2.4.22 kernel, released
> *ONE* year ago.

There is a lot in the 2.4.22 FC-1 kernel that makes this kind of rolling
forward movement hard. In essence 2.4.22 FC-1 was defined by what was in
RH9 2.4.x (NPTL etc) and that in turn wasn't defined for the Fedora like
goals.

The only sane way to really update the FC1 kernel is 2.6.x