Re: 2.6.20 kernel in unstable?

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 06:03 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > Greg Trounson wrote:
> > > Any idea when kernel 2.6.20 is going to show up in Sid?  The most recent 
> > > version I see in Sid is 2.6.18-4.
> > >
> > > Both 2.6.18 and 2.6.19 have a critical cifs bug that makes any machine 
> > > that mounts windows shares pretty much unusable.
> > hugo@debian:~$ uname -a
> > Linux debian 2.6.20-ck1 #1 PREEMPT Sun Feb 18 09:52:32 CST 2007 i686 
> > GNU/Linux
> > hugo@debian:~$
> >
> >  From here:
> > http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/
>
> Yes, Con Kolivas (not 100% sure of his name) does do well. He seems to
> have alot of input on the LKML and has quite a bit of patching and dev
> on it.
>
> If you are going to actually USE a third party kernel... Wouldn't you
> rather use a Debian built 2.6.20 kernel?

Sure would! But here's why I cannot:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/12/msg01571.html

solve that and I'll be on the Debian Kernel Bandwagon 8-)

Hugo


> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernel
>
> There are the steps to get the latest Debian Kernel etc...
>
>         greg@princess:~$ apt-cache search linux-image-2.6.20 | cut -f1
>         -d\
>         linux-headers-2.6.20-1-486
>         linux-headers-2.6.20-1-686
>         linux-headers-2.6.20-1-686-bigmem
>         linux-headers-2.6.20-1-amd64
>         linux-headers-2.6.20-1-k7
>         linux-headers-2.6.20-1-vserver-686
>         linux-headers-2.6.20-1-vserver-k7
>         linux-image-2.6.20-1-486
>         linux-image-2.6.20-1-686
>         linux-image-2.6.20-1-686-bigmem
>         linux-image-2.6.20-1-amd64
>         linux-image-2.6.20-1-k7
>         linux-image-2.6.20-1-vserver-686
>         linux-image-2.6.20-1-vserver-k7
>
> I clipped the descriptions, to help keep it readable.
>
> This way, you don't have an outside of Debian, managed kernel.