On 10/30/2011 03:02 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Alan Bartlett<a...@elrepo.org> wrote:
On 30 October 2011 17:55, Stephen Isard<7p03xy...@sneakemail.com> wrote:
I have an RCA VR5320 digital voice recorder. It has a usb connector, but
isn't recognized by SL 5.6.
<snip>
I don't want to get into a position of maintaining my own kernel. I'd
rather wait until I catch up with 2.6.32 and impose on friends with newer
kernels or windows machines in the meantime.
Hi Stephen,
You will have a very long wait. The SL 5.x kernels will remain to be
based on 2.6.18 until EOL. ;) That is how TUV maintain a stable kernel
ABI for the life of EL5.
If you would like to have a SL kernel based on 2.6.32, please install SL 6.x :)
Regards,
Alan.
I was rather surprised that Alan did not mention ELRepo's kernel-ml. :-O
kernel-ml-2.6.35 does have the patch referenced here:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/19/609
I should also note that kernel-ml is not for production use but it's
been quite stable and Alan has been doing a good job of keeping it up
to date. :-)
http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-ml
Akemi
Could you kindly clarify what you mean by "kernel-ml is not for
production use" in reference to kernel 2.6.35?
From URL: http://www.kernel.org/ as of 31 Oct 2011:
stable: 3.0.4 2011-08-29
stable: 2.6.39.4 2011-08-03
stable: 2.6.38.8 2011-06-03
stable: 2.6.37.6 2011-03-27
longterm: 2.6.35.14 2011-08-01
longterm: 2.6.34.10 2011-06-26
longterm: 2.6.33.19 2011-08-29
longterm: 2.6.32.46 2011-08-29
longterm: 2.6.27.59 2011-04-30
Based upon the above, 2.6.35 appears to in the longterm (long in the
tooth?) stable branch. Is the "not for production use" in reference to
not having the upstream vendor (why is everyone so loath to use the name
Red Hat that is all over the source code for SL?) kernel application
binary interface for EL 5?
Yasha Karant
