Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 06 Dec 2005 09:59:44 -0500 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel |
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Lee Revell wrote: > On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 11:17 -0500, Mark Lord wrote: > >>>>>Ahh OK .. I don't use it, so wouldn't have been affected. That's one >>>>>userspace interface broken during the series, does anyone have any more? >> >>Ah.. another one, that I was just reminded of again >>by the umpteenth person posting that their wireless >>no longer is WPA capable after upgrading from 2.6.12. >> >>Of course, the known solution for that issue is to >>upgrade to the recently "fixed" latest wpa_supplicant >>daemon in userspace, since the old one no longer works. >> >>Things like this are all too regular an occurance. > > > The distro should have solved this problem by making sure that the > kernel upgrade depends on a new wpa_supplicant package. Don't they > bother to test this stuff before they ship it?!?
Could you provide a little detail on the technology by which a distro checks for functionality against a kernel which wasn't necessarily released when the distro shipped. My udev doesn't generate /dev/timewarp.
Going to a new kernel in the same series shouldn't have to be treated as if it were a change to a whole new operating system, and shouldn't require completely replacing existing utilities with new ones which aren't backware compatible to allow fallback to the original kernel.
-- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me
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