2009/12/17 Jim Green <[log in to unmask]>: > Thank you to all who replied. I am, you probably guessed, a bit of > a RH virgin and didn't know about the heavy patching applied to > kernels -- I'm from the Debian world where a range of kernels is always > available and trying them out is just an apt-get away. Please excuse > my faux pas. No problem. :-) > Garrett Holmstrom: >> The right way to fix this problem would be to file a bug against the >> kernel package so upstream can backport a fix. They add bugfixes >> and new features by patching the same kernel version so the release >> can keep the same version throughout its lifetime while still remaining >> useful. > > I'll do that, but do you mean the kernel devs at kernel.org > or RH or SL? Essentially TUV to SL, in words rather than acronyms, Red Hat -- via https://bugzilla.redhat.com/frontpage.cgi It might be worth being aware of the RHEL 5 testing kernels that are made available by Don Zickus -- http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5/ Usually the patches that are present in Don's testing kernels eventually make their way into the next RHEL kernel release and hence the SL (and CentOS) kernels. > Cheers, and thanks again for all the help You're welcome. Alan.