[oe] Updating kernels to latest stable versions

[Marcin Juszkiewicz]

Dnia poniedziałek, 19 października 2009 o 20:08:14 Mike Westerhof napisał(a):
> Khem Raj wrote:

> > You might have to try builds because there could be some backported
> > patches already applied which now are in the new minor release. (I
> > haven't looked myself if there is such a case.)
 
> There may also be platform-specific patches that won't apply with the
> newer kernel updates, a possibility that is more likely with the
> pressure to have maintainers use the generic kernel recipes instead of
> just creating their own specific recipe.
> 
> And no, I haven't yet looked to see this will be a problem for the
> ixp4xx kernels; that's not a big concern and I'll fix that myself should
> it be necessary.  I merely mention this to point out that we probably
> need to move carefully on blanket updates to the kernel if we wish to
> encourage use of the generic kernel recipes -- that's all. :)

And those reasons are why I did not pushed any of those this time (before I 
updated .30 and .31). Tomorrow will do some build testing.

Regards, 
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