From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261936AbVHCABn (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Aug 2005 20:01:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261941AbVHCABn (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Aug 2005 20:01:43 -0400 Received: from delta.securenet-server.net ([72.9.248.26]:20709 "EHLO delta.securenet-server.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261936AbVHCAA4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Aug 2005 20:00:56 -0400 Message-ID: <42F0092D.7040601@machinehasnoagenda.com> Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 10:00:45 +1000 From: "Shayne O'Connor" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6-1.1.fc3 (X11/20050720) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Testing RC kernels [KORG] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PopBeforeSMTPSenders: forums@machinehasnoagenda.com,machine@machinehasnoagenda.com,shunichi@machinehasnoagenda.com X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - delta.securenet-server.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - machinehasnoagenda.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >> Thanks for testing the RCs, we need more users to do that. >> >> If any of your hardware stops working, make sure to report it, don't >> assume that it will fix itself! Assume you're the first to notice the >> bug. > > I've been complaining about this for some time. Kernel.org really needs > to show more information about the rc kernels and how to create them. > We want more testers, but I wonder how many people go through the above > steps and just give up when things don't work. Luckly Sean was nice > enough to email the LKML and ask. > > My main gripe is that there's no link to 2.6.12 which is what most of > the other patches go against. > > -- Steve yeah, it took me a while to figure out how to patch the kernel with the latest RC ... i'm finally there, though, and am addicted now to testing each bleeding edge kernel :( shayne