Bug#277835: 2.6.12 appears ok

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 01:51:44PM +0000, Neil Pilgrim wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've finally had a chance to try the 2.6.12 kernel, via the 
> linux-image-2.6.12-1-686_2.6.12-10_i386.deb from testing, on this 
> otherwise sarge system.
> 
> This works fine, at least with regard to mounting my usb stick. I will 
> test 2.6.12 further (I see it is actually based on 2.6.12.6), although 
> I'm wary of using a less-tested/more-recent version, even if it is off 
> the 'stable' branch of 2.6.12.
> 
> With regard to obtaining an updated 2.6.8 version for sarge, I'm 
> certainly willing to test a slightly 'tweaked' version, but not really 
> able to set this up myself here. Of course, if 2.6.12 (or .14) is 
> actually considered 'safe', then I'd be inclined to just recommend that 
> instead, if people other than myself do have this problem - although 
> that's probably not really a line that debian could/should officially 
> take, I suspect :)

Well, in most, if not all, aspects, the 2.6.12 and 2.6.14 kernels are better
than the 2.6.8 ones, and at least the kernel team officially recomends using
them, or the sarge backports we are or will be making available.

Obviously, they can't be part of a sarge update with current policies, nor be
a security upgrade.

Friendly,

Sven Luther