On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 04:56, Daniel Robitaille wrote: > 1) Since I installed FC1 just before Christmas, I have had to do 4 > kernel upgrades in 3 weeks. Is that an anomalous period, or it's > always going to be like that in the Fedora world? I don't remember so many > kernel updates in a short time like this with RHL8/9. Or I'm getting > what I'm paying for? :) There was a large amount of bits and pieces that were missed from the release of FC1 -> 2.4.23 release, which I've been trying to get merged as painlessly as possible. (Ie, not integrating netdriver updates with networking updates at the same time -- this way works out easier to track things down if there's a networking regression). This coupled with 2-3 security updates made it quite a busy time over the last few weeks. Things should start to slow down real soon. The current kernel in -testing (2154) has a large number of the remaining 2.4.23->2.4.25 changes. Additionally, as we get closer to FC2, I'm focusing more on getting that in shape than updating the FC1 kernel. > Dec 24 14:48 vmlinux-2.4.22-1.2135.nptl > Jan 6 17:50 vmlinux-2.4.22-1.2138.nptl > Jan 7 23:19 vmlinux-2.4.22-1.2140.nptl > Jan 13 20:40 vmlinux-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl > 2) What is the history behind these numbers? (2135, 2138, etc)? It's > obviously a version number, but was it ever "1"? (maybe with the first > RH 2.4.x kernel???) It's a CVS ident. It gets bumped with each cvs checkin I do. Dave
