On Monday, 15 March 2010 07:40:18 +0100, Attila Kinali wrote: > On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:06:55 -0700 > Manoj Srivastava <sriva...@acm.org> wrote:
> > Unfortunately, not very high. And as a package maintainer, I > > have little control over that; release policy is set by the stable > > release managers, and I am not sure that building kernel images > > meets the bar for inclusion into stable. > IMHO it should. Building custom kernels is pretty much standard, to > get fixes for kernel bugs and support for new hardware. > > Considering that 2.6.33 fixes a memory handling bug introduced in > 2.6.30, which causes the kernel to fail to allocate memory and hence > lock up for seconds, i'd say this fix for kernel-package should be > backported rather sooner than later. > > Is there anything we can do as users, to help you getting this > backport done and included into stable? Also I was with this problem past monday trying to compile Linux 2.6.33.1 in Debian Lenny amd64. We will have some estimation of when it could be solved? Thanks in advance for your reply. Regards, Daniel -- Daniel Bareiro - GNU/Linux registered user #188.598 Proudly running Debian GNU/Linux with uptime: 06:20:04 up 36 days, 30 min, 10 users, load average: 0.06, 0.10, 0.09
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