Hi everyone,
This is one of those rare situations where there are enough serious bugs
against the kernel that we may have to rapid stabilize
hardened-sources-3.2.59-r5 and 3.14.5-r2. These are currently marked ~
because I need feedback from users. So please try to upgrade to either
one (3.2 is preferred for mission critical) and give me feedback. The
only caution is do not enable KSTACKOVERFLOW, a new option which is know
to cause panics, eg virtio iface.
Within the next few days I will mark those stable if they pass. And a
few days later I will start to prune the older stables that are
susceptible to 3153.
A note to what ~ means. ~ does not mean "unstable". I know that we say
a package on an arch is "stable" when we remove the ~, but adding the ~
doesn't make it "unstable". It means its of an unknown state. So
please read ~ as "test me!" The kernel is unlike most packages in that
it is vast and at any given time has dozens of bugs or other problems.
You'll never have a prefect kernel, only one that is "good enough". I
will only know its "good enough" if you don't complain. And you
complain via bugs so that when my spider senses suggest its time for a
new kernel, i look through the bugs and see which one is "good enough".
--
Anthony G. Basile, Ph. D.
Chair of Information Technology
D'Youville College
Buffalo, NY 14201
(716) 829-8197
