From: ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid   
      
   On Sun, 03 Mar 2013, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandriva, in article   
   , TJ wrote:   
      
   >Moe Trin wrote:   
      
   >> Reading between the lines in the ChangeLog, this doesn't sound like   
   >> a "critical" update for your systems - more of a "nice to have".   
      
   >The desktop update appeared earlier today. The changelog as expressed   
   >by Mageia doesn't mention anything about changes to the b43 driver   
   >between this and the last update. Not surprised - as you said, that   
   >would be very fast.   
      
   It's in the kernel.org kernel, but the question is if the distribution   
   used the entire kernel, or merely cherry-picked.   ALL distributions   
   modify source to suit their interpretation of what is wanted.  Some   
   include features that were not in the source, and some do not include   
   all because it conflicts with some other modification they made.   
      
   >Observations of the usual actions of the Mageia team would indicate   
   >that a new kernel would not be issued so close to another update if   
   >the team didn't think there was a critical need for it. If "nice to   
   >have" was enough to trigger such updates we'd have a new one every   
   >week or so.   
      
   Again - they have to test that improvements don't clash with the   
   software they are supplying.  As for update intervals:   
      
   [fermi ~]$ zgrep ux-3.4.[23][0-9].tar.gz /net/james-webb/kernel/3.0-ls   
    | cut -c44-68 | column   
   Nov 26 20:15 linux-3.4.20       Jan 28 04:57 linux-3.4.28   
   Dec 03 20:30 linux-3.4.21       Feb 04 03:32 linux-3.4.29   
   Dec 06 02:50 linux-3.4.22       Feb 11 17:46 linux-3.4.30   
   Dec 10 19:09 linux-3.4.23       Feb 14 19:13 linux-3.4.31   
   Dec 17 18:45 linux-3.4.24       Feb 17 19:02 linux-3.4.32   
   Jan 12 00:07 linux-3.4.25       Feb 21 18:12 linux-3.4.33   
   Jan 17 16:57 linux-3.4.26       Feb 28 15:05 linux-3.4.34   
   Jan 21 19:56 linux-3.4.27   
   [fermi ~]$   
      
   Looks like kernel.org took the year-end holidays, but otherwise...   
      
   >But you know that. I suspect what you were saying in the above   
   >statement is that the b43 update we were discussing isn't critical.   
   >You weren't commenting on any other reasons there might be for a   
   >kernel update.   
      
   Yeah, that was poorly worded on my part.   
      
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