F7 kernel update.
People keep asking me when the Fedora 7 kernel update is going out.
The answer 'soon' (maybe as soon as tomorrow).

There's still a slew of things that need fixing. For the first round of updates, the focus is almost entirely on fixing the critical bugs like "It crashes during boot". Looking at the first round of bugs that came in during the first week after F7's release, it's pretty horrific. The vast majority seem to be from libata (something of a mix of SATA and PATA bugs).
This was in part expected, as the switchover from ye-olde-IDE to libata pata was something of a gutsy decision to make. It wasn't expected that it'd be this ad.

So, for those asking "will this update fix my suspend/resume" "will my ipw3945 work better?" etc, the answer is "not yet".

The overall quality of 2.6.21 is pretty horrific. It saw the introduction of a lot of new code fundamental to the operation of the kernel (the tickless stuff for eg), massive updates to areas such as ACPI, and just to mix things up, we switched from a known-crap-but-tried-and-tested IDE system to a-bleeding-edge-but-hopefully-with-signs-of-promise libata based system. Lots of changes == lots of fallout the first time it goes into a production OS.

It's likely that we'll skip a 2.6.21 update for FC6, and do an update straight to 2.6.22 for both FC6 and F7 when that gets released.

So, doom and gloom, and business as usual on the kernel front.
On the plus side, I get to go see Skinny Puppy tonight. \o/