On 10/30/2011 03:02 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Alan Bartlett<[log in to unmask]>  wrote:
>> On 30 October 2011 17:55, Stephen Isard<[log in to unmask]>  wrote:
>>> I have an RCA VR5320 digital voice recorder.  It has a usb connector, but
>>> isn't recognized by SL 5.6.
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>> I don't want to get into a position of maintaining my own kernel.  I'd
>>> rather wait until I catch up with 2.6.32 and impose on friends with newer
>>> kernels or windows machines in the meantime.
>>
>> Hi Stephen,
>>
>> You will have a very long wait. The SL 5.x kernels will remain to be
>> based on 2.6.18 until EOL. ;) That is how TUV maintain a stable kernel
>> ABI for the life of EL5.
>>
>> If you would like to have a SL kernel based on 2.6.32, please install SL 6.x :)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Alan.
>
> I was rather surprised that Alan did not mention ELRepo's kernel-ml. :-O
>
> kernel-ml-2.6.35 does have the patch referenced here:
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/19/609
>
> I should also note that kernel-ml is not for production use but it's
> been quite stable and Alan has been doing a good job of keeping it up
> to date. :-)
>
> http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-ml
>
> Akemi

Could you kindly clarify what you mean by "kernel-ml is not for 
production use" in reference to kernel 2.6.35?

 From URL:  http://www.kernel.org/ as of 31 Oct 2011:

stable:         3.0.4           2011-08-29
stable:         2.6.39.4        2011-08-03
stable:         2.6.38.8        2011-06-03
stable:         2.6.37.6        2011-03-27
longterm:       2.6.35.14       2011-08-01
longterm:       2.6.34.10       2011-06-26
longterm:       2.6.33.19       2011-08-29
longterm:       2.6.32.46       2011-08-29
longterm:       2.6.27.59       2011-04-30

Based upon the above, 2.6.35 appears to in the longterm (long in the 
tooth?) stable branch.  Is the "not for production use" in reference to 
not having the upstream vendor (why is everyone so loath to use the name 
Red Hat that is all over the source code for SL?) kernel application 
binary interface for EL 5?

Yasha Karant