[Devel] Questions about development kernels.

[Pavel Emelyanov]

Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 11:57 -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
>> On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 18:45 +0400, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
>>> Michael H. Warfield wrote:
>>>> Hey all!
>>>>
>>>> 	A few questions about the development kernel branches.  My Fedora 8 and
>>>> Fedora 9 systems are all now at 2.6.26 kernels but the OpenVZ stuff is
>>>> stuck on 2.6.24-ovz005.1.
>>>>
>>>> 	* Is there any expectation of a release from the 2.6.26 branch any time
>>>> soon?
> 
>>> Yes. I hope next week we'll have 2.6.26-ovz001 and 2.6.24-ovz006 (after this
>>> 2.6.24 will be frozen)
> 
>> 	Excellent.  I'll be checking them out as soon as they become available!
> 
> 	I saw that 2.6.26 was released to testing, with the new naming scheme,
> a week and a half ago but hasn't been released as a package outside of
> git yet.  Now that 2.6.27 is out, are we going to see a 2.6.26 release
> or are we going to jump shift to 2.6.27.

We are not planning to release 2.6.27 kernels. 2.6.26's first release
will be after we test it somewhat properly. Right now this process is not
finished.

> 	Where was the 2.6.26 repository in relation to the 2.6.26.5 and
> 2.6.26.6 kernels?  Reason I'm asking that is that there was a serious
> bug in 2.6.26.5 wrt IPsec which would cause random lockups.  It was not
> present in 2.6.26.3 and was fixed in 2.6.26.6 and 2.6.27.

We haven't yet pulled in the 2.6.26.y stable patches. They will be in the
next release.

> 	Regards,
> 	Mike