Bug 291783 – Please mark =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.31-r6 and =sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.31.6 stable

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Rick Jenkins 2009-11-03 20:25:58 UTC]

I run several stable systems, using KDE. The recent upgrade to
KDE4 forces me to use an unstable kernel >=gentoo-sources-2.6.31 in order to
make the system work, see bug #288346. KDE3.5 is about to be removed from
portage, so I must soon upgrade all my systems to KDE4. 

Is it possible to stabilise a suitable kernel, so that a stable KDE4 system can
be built?


Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Mike Pagano 2009-11-04 16:32:45 UTC]

Stabilizing 2.6.31 is definitely in our plans. Right now we have a few regressions in 2.6.31 I'd like to see resolved.  But we have not forgotten about making a 2.6.31 stable.

[Comment 2 Mike Pagano 2009-11-15 19:57:09 UTC]

Please consider stabilizing =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.31-r6 and matching
=sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.31.6. They fix bug 291904, which is present in
all 2.6.31[<.6] kernels, see [1] for the upstream bug. This bug causes multiple race conditions in fs/pipe.c

[1]http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-3547

[Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2009-11-18 01:44:19 UTC]

Stable for HPPA.

[Comment 4 Christian Faulhammer (RETIRED) 2009-11-26 10:34:43 UTC]

x86 stable

[Comment 5 Christian Faulhammer (RETIRED) 2009-11-26 10:46:47 UTC]

For other arches.  Have a look at http://www.faulhammer.org/archiv-mainmenu-31/35-gentoo/309-kernel-testing-request-2631 and see if your arch is mentioned in the comments.

[Comment 6 Markus Meier 2009-11-26 17:53:16 UTC]

amd64/arm stable

[Comment 7 Joe Jezak (RETIRED) 2009-11-30 07:59:36 UTC]

Marked ppc/ppc64 stable.

[Comment 8 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) 2009-12-11 20:30:12 UTC]

alpha/ia64/sh/sparc stable, closing