Bug 446860

Summary:	sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.6.8 stabilization request
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Kristian Duus Østergaard <duus-gentoobugs>
Component:	[OLD] Keywording and Stabilization	Assignee:	Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers <kernel>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	franz.trischberger, tomwij
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Kristian Duus Østergaard 2012-12-11 10:37:42 UTC

As far as I can tell 3.6.8 is more stable than 3.5.7 - as least it seems to have gotten rid of an anoying lockup of the i915 graphics driver.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2012-12-11 12:21:28 UTC

the kernel team knows what and when stabilize.

Comment 2 Tom Wijsman (TomWij) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-12-11 13:17:07 UTC

The kernel team is looking how 3.6.10 goes for at least a week, then they will maybe put that one up for stabilization; they kept wanting to do it, but every time another version came out.

Source: mpagano from #gentoo-kernel on FreeNode.

Comment 3 Franz Trischberger 2012-12-11 18:41:53 UTC

There possibly is another quite severe power regression:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_power_20&num=1
Especially judging from the comments it hit quite some users.
(Just noting that in case you did not read about it, yet.)

Comment 4 Kristian Duus Østergaard 2012-12-11 19:38:11 UTC

Fair enough - I've just seen a quite a few comments asking users to create stabilization requests for packages and 3.6.8 seemed better to me than 3.5.7.

I won't reopen this - looking forward to 3.6.10++?