[elrepo] Consultation: Kernel-ml Packages for EL6

[Alan Bartlett]

On 3 February 2012 17:36, Trevor Hemsley <themsley at voiceflex.com> wrote:
> Alan Bartlett wrote:
>> It has recently been suggested to me that the ELRepo Project should
>> now provide a kernel-ml package set based on the long-term support
>> linux-3.0.x series rather than the linux-2.6.39.y series.
>>
>> Having mulled it over for a while, it does make sense to me and so I
>> have "smiled" at that suggestion. Before I go ahead and implement it,
>> which will eventually result in the deprecation of the
>> kernel-ml-2.6.39-4.2.el6.elrepo package set, I would like to hear
>> opinions / comments from the ELRepo user-base.
>>
> I'm not currently using the kernel-ml -package but am running 3.2.1 on
> CentOS 5.7.
>
> I'm fairly sure that you will need to rename it to 2.6.x.x before you
> can use it as the userspace tools in C5 make assumptions about 2.4 vs
> 2.6 based on the 2.6 part of the version number. My 3.2.1 is currently
> running successfully as 2.6.42.1 and the only thing that I've found
> that's broken so far is coretemp which now creates files called
> cpu[234]_input and cpu[11-13]_input and many of the userspace tools
> break because they are looking for cpu1_input and barf when it does not
> exist.
>
> 3.2.2 came out the day after I built mine :-(

Thanks for your comments, Trevor, but this consultation / discussion
relates to EL6.

Alan.