Speakup Modified Fedora 4 Will Be Delayed

[Janina Sajka]

I think your confusion comes from lack of familiarity with Fedora's
kernel numbering practices. It is true that FC4 ships with a kernel
numbered 2.6.11-*. However, that kernel includes many, if indeed not
most, of the patches that distinguish a 2.6.11 kernel from a 2.6.12
kernel. In other words, Fedora's 2.6.11-* is substantively the same as a
2.6.12 (which is not yet released in any case).

No one is attempting to patch Speakup into anything but the shipping FC4
kernel.

Dawes, Stephen writes:
> A few questions:
> 1. How are things proceeding with the building of the kernels?
> 
> 2. I am a little confused, Janina wrote earlier in this thread that
> there are problems with compiling speakup into a 2.6.12 kernel. Yet,
> when I look at the ISO of FC4, it has a 2.6.11-1.136 kernel. Why are
> attempts being made to compile speakup for the FC4 release on a kernel
> that is not part of the official release?
> I only ask because 2.6.11 kernel has been successfully compiled with
> speakup.
> 
> 3. I have also noticed that FC4 no longer has kernel-utils included with
> the core. Is this the new direction of kernel.org, or a Fedora decision?
> 
> 
> Steve Dawes
> Phone: (403) 268-5527
> Email: SDawes at calgary.ca
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