Bug#307317: kernel-image-2.6.11-1-686: PREEMPT support

["Laurent Bonnaud" <bonnaud@lis.inpg.fr>]

Package: kernel
Version: 2.6.11-3
Severity: wishlist


Hi,

until version 2.6.10, kernels were built with PREEMPT enabled.  This
has changed in version 2.6.11-2:

kernel-image-2.6.11-i386 (2.6.11-2) unstable; urgency=low
[...]
  * Disable CONFIG_PREEMPT (Andres Salomon).

$ grep PREEMPT /boot/config-2.6.11-1-686
# CONFIG_PREEMPT is not set

Since the changelog entry does not tell why this change was made, I'm
wondering.  I'm running numerous machines with standard Debian kernels
and never found any problem with PREEMPT.  So could you please:

 - either re-enable PREEMPT
 - or document why it has been disabled (in README.Debian for example) ?


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-1-686
Locale: LANG=fr_FR@euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages kernel-image-2.6.11-1-686 depends on:
ii  coreutils [fileutils]         5.2.1-2    The GNU core utilities
ii  fileutils                     5.2.1-2    The GNU file management utilities 
ii  initrd-tools                  0.1.78     tools to create initrd image for p
ii  module-init-tools             3.2-pre1-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo

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