Re: Important kernel update should not break stuff

2012-06-14 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 06/14/2012 04:54 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Felix Miata wrote: >> Is "never" appropriate even if one's own experience is with 3 systems? 7 >> systems? 13 systems? 40 systems? Never say never, or always. ;-) > > That can widen the class of affected devices, but from there to "all Intel > WiFi" i

Re: Important kernel update should not break stuff

2012-06-13 Thread Kevin Kofler
Felix Miata wrote: > Is "never" appropriate even if one's own experience is with 3 systems? 7 > systems? 13 systems? 40 systems? Never say never, or always. ;-) That can widen the class of affected devices, but from there to "all Intel WiFi" is still a long stretch. (For a starter, last I checked

Re: Important kernel update should not break stuff

2012-06-13 Thread Kevin Kofler
Josh Boyer wrote: > The person that submits the update gets emails for every comment added > to the update. This particular one had a couple things that happened > though. > > 1) It got the requisite karma for stable rather quickly > 2) Justin was on vacation when the negative karma was submitted

Re: Important kernel update should not break stuff

2012-06-13 Thread Roman Kennke
Am Mittwoch, den 13.06.2012, 12:07 -0700 schrieb Adam Williamson: > On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 09:36 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Roman Kennke wrote: > > > Would it make sense to require more karma than just the default 3? > > > Looking at: > > > > > > https://admin.fed

Re: Important kernel update should not break stuff

2012-06-13 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 09:36 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Roman Kennke wrote: > > Would it make sense to require more karma than just the default 3? > > Looking at: > > > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-8824/kernel-3.4.0-1.fc17 > > > > I see that

Re: Important kernel update should not break stuff

2012-06-13 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 14:33 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2012/06/13 11:22 (GMT-0700) Adam Williamson composed: > > > Your own personal experience is _never_ sufficient grounds for > > concluding that the bug you're experiencing affects a much broader class > > of devices. > > Is "never" appropr

Re: Important kernel update should not break stuff

2012-06-13 Thread Felix Miata
On 2012/06/13 11:22 (GMT-0700) Adam Williamson composed: Your own personal experience is _never_ sufficient grounds for concluding that the bug you're experiencing affects a much broader class of devices. Is "never" appropriate even if one's own experience is with 3 systems? 7 systems? 13 sys

Re: Important kernel update should not break stuff

2012-06-13 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 12:51 +0200, Roman Kennke wrote: > I cannot believe that I am the only one > on an Intel Wifi chip. I haven't yet read the rest of the thread, but I just wanted to point out this common fallacy. As a general rule, all $VENDOR_$DEVICETYPE devices do not act the same. You cann

Re: Important kernel update should not break stuff

2012-06-13 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 13:16:24 -0400, Aleksandar Kurtakov wrote: If we means all people subscribed to fedora-devel I think everyone should run with updates-testing enabled. This definition of we is the people that make Fedora happen so we should always test our stuff - non-stop. Regular u

Re: Important kernel update should not break stuff

2012-06-13 Thread Aleksandar Kurtakov
- Original Message - > From: "Ian Malone" > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" > > Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 7:27:03 PM > Subject: Re: Important kernel update should not break stuff > > On 13 June 2012 13:31, Aleksandar

Re: Important kernel update should not break stuff

2012-06-13 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 17:27:03 +0100, Ian Malone wrote: I get the need for people to volunteer and test and that's fine. But the thing I can't square here is why then we aren't all on updates-testing all the time? The kernel is one of the few packages you can guarantee everyone is using. We

Re: Important kernel update should not break stuff

2012-06-13 Thread Ian Malone
On 13 June 2012 13:31, Aleksandar Kurtakov wrote: > - Original Message - >> From: "Roman Kennke" >> To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" >> >> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 3:15:14 PM >> Subject: Re: Important kernel

Re: Important kernel update should not break stuff

2012-06-13 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 06/13/2012 01:39 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: Yes, that is true. However it also speaks to the extremely small usage of rawhide and the relative lack of variety in both test hardware and setups. I have no magical solutions to those problems. We simply need more people testing rawhide kernels in ge

Re: Important kernel update should not break stuff

2012-06-13 Thread Josh Boyer
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 14:49:25 +0200, >  Nikola Pajkovsky wrote: >> >> >> imo, kernel maintainers should have released 3.3.8 or 3.4.1, not 3.4.0 >> for f17 > > > 3.4.2 is available, though the last I checked the build hadn't been pushed

Re: Important kernel update should not break stuff

2012-06-13 Thread Josh Boyer
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Roman Kennke wrote: > Would it make sense to require more karma than just the default 3? > Looking at: > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-8824/kernel-3.4.0-1.fc17 > > I see that there are 5 oks and 2 denys, which actually point to bug > reports

Re: Important kernel update should not break stuff

2012-06-13 Thread Josh Boyer
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 9:14 AM, M A Young wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jun 2012, Nikola Pajkovsky wrote: > >> imo, kernel maintainers should have released 3.3.8 or 3.4.1, not 3.4.0 >> for f17 > > > I believe the 3.4.0 kernel package was effectively 3.4.1 anyway. Yes, it was. Justin added the patches que

Re: Important kernel update should not break stuff

2012-06-13 Thread Roman Kennke
Am Mittwoch, den 13.06.2012, 14:29 +0200 schrieb Stijn Hoop: > Hi, > > On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 14:15:14 +0200 > Roman Kennke wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, den 13.06.2012, 13:05 +0100 schrieb Johannes Lips: > > > I think the reason for shipping the latest upstream kernel is based > > > on the fact that back

Re: Important kernel update should not break stuff

2012-06-13 Thread M A Young
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012, Nikola Pajkovsky wrote: imo, kernel maintainers should have released 3.3.8 or 3.4.1, not 3.4.0 for f17 I believe the 3.4.0 kernel package was effectively 3.4.1 anyway. Michael Young -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.or

Re: Important kernel update should not break stuff

2012-06-13 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 14:49:25 +0200, Nikola Pajkovsky wrote: imo, kernel maintainers should have released 3.3.8 or 3.4.1, not 3.4.0 for f17 3.4.2 is available, though the last I checked the build hadn't been pushed to testing. I don't know if that is an oversight or if they didn't feel

Re: Important kernel update should not break stuff

2012-06-13 Thread Nikola Pajkovsky
Roman Kennke writes: > Am Mittwoch, den 13.06.2012, 13:05 +0100 schrieb Johannes Lips: >> >> >> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Roman Kennke >> wrote: >> > Today something happened, that happens over and over again >> with Fedora, >> > and it makes me angry. I am runni

Re: Important kernel update should not break stuff

2012-06-13 Thread Aleksandar Kurtakov
- Original Message - > From: "Roman Kennke" > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" > > Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 3:15:14 PM > Subject: Re: Important kernel update should not break stuff > > Am Mittwoch, den 13.0

Re: Important kernel update should not break stuff

2012-06-13 Thread Frank Murphy
On 13/06/12 13:15, Roman Kennke wrote: Ok, fair enough. The question remains, how can we avoid such bad things to happen in the future? Should I regularily try out kernel builds on their way to stable, and object to their stable-release when I find a problem? And how would I do that? (I.e. how

Re: Important kernel update should not break stuff

2012-06-13 Thread Josh Boyer
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Roman Kennke wrote: >> I think the reason for shipping the latest upstream kernel is based on >> the fact that backporting would be too much work. >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KernelRebases >> Gives a good overview and probably prevents us from repeating >> arg

Re: Important kernel update should not break stuff

2012-06-13 Thread Stijn Hoop
Hi, On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 14:15:14 +0200 Roman Kennke wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 13.06.2012, 13:05 +0100 schrieb Johannes Lips: > > I think the reason for shipping the latest upstream kernel is based > > on the fact that backporting would be too much work. > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KernelReb

Re: Important kernel update should not break stuff

2012-06-13 Thread Roman Kennke
Am Mittwoch, den 13.06.2012, 13:05 +0100 schrieb Johannes Lips: > > > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Roman Kennke > wrote: > > Today something happened, that happens over and over again > with Fedora, > > and it makes me angry. I am running Fedora 17, and so far it >

Re: Important kernel update should not break stuff

2012-06-13 Thread Johannes Lips
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Roman Kennke wrote: > > Today something happened, that happens over and over again with Fedora, > > and it makes me angry. I am running Fedora 17, and so far it worked well > > with the initial kernel 3.3.x (except that it would panic on shutdown... > > but that w

Re: Important kernel update should not break stuff

2012-06-13 Thread Roman Kennke
> Today something happened, that happens over and over again with Fedora, > and it makes me angry. I am running Fedora 17, and so far it worked well > with the initial kernel 3.3.x (except that it would panic on shutdown... > but that was not important to me, but still embarassing). Today I was > n