Russ Allbery wrote: > So far as I can tell, these bugs do not affect the 2.6 kernel supplied by > Debian in sarge. I'm not sure, however, if the preempt problems might > affect the sarge kernel if built with preempt. These problems will cause > serious difficulties for anyone using a newer 2.6 kernel. > > #308399 is severity grave at the moment. I tagged it sid, which is sort > of true and sort of not -- the bug is present in the package in sarge, but > is not triggered by the sarge kernel. It only affects preempt kernels, > but certainly the system not shutting down and unmounting file systems > cleanly is a serious problem if one happens to run into it. > > Given this, should I consider a backport of 1.3.82 for sarge? Or try to > pull individual deltas (in which case, testing is going to be *very* > important to make sure that I didn't miss some code dependency when > cherry-picking patches) and still end up with a fairly sizeable diff? A third option might be to only document the problem and possibly make the sarge version refuse to run under the problimatic kernel versions. If a user is building a kernel from non-sarge sources, they can use non-sarge sources for openafs too after all. -- see shy jo
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