genkernel 3.4.10.908 released 2010-12-25
Summary
I have just released genkernel 3.4.10.908 to the testing tree.
From a high level point of view this release brings:
- Unreleased patches laying around in Git (details below)
- A much more up to date man page
Below you can find details on the changes since 3.4.10.907. Besides the people contributing bug reports and patches, Andrew Gaffney and Robin H. Johnson deserve credit, too.
Please open bugs for any issues you run into.
Bug fixes
| 297814 | Make sure loop cache directory exists |
| 261122 | Enable CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN option |
| 262915 | Properly apply NFS mount options |
| 294268 | Add support for isoboot= option |
| 268818 | Enable ext4 by default everywhere |
| 270983 | Add USB HID modules to modules_load and default kernel-config |
| 301454 | Only call set_bootloader is CMD_NOINSTALL is not set |
| 268468 | Make fbsplash switch to verbose mode in initramfs |
| 341943 | Allow compilation of busybox 1.7.4 with make 3.82 |
Documentation fixes
| n/a | man page: Propagate rename of –no-initrdmodules to –no-ramdisk-modules |
| 251702 | Mention both “initramfs” and “ramdisk” as available actions |
| 346015 | Document LUKS variable |
| 346017 | Document keymap= and dokeymap |
| n/a | Update man page from output of –help |
| n/a | Fix a reference to –nomenuconfig into –no-menuconfig |
| n/a | Document –genzimage |
Internal changes
- Documented how releases are rolled
- Migrated man page to AsciiDoc
- Added a script to check how well documentation is in sync (maintenance/docmatcher.py)
- Added a Makefile for generation of man page and release tarballs
Thanks for your interest.
The genkernel 3.4.10.908 released by Sebastian Pipping, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
There’s a patch that “adds proper mdadm support to genkernel generated initramfs” that is pretty important as without it, you cannot use genkernel if your mdadm array has a 1.x superbock. Would you mind applying it? https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=282100
If this project is still alive, please add support for software suspend (uswsusp), there is an open bug for this for ages.
It’s about time, especially when the last commit goes back to feb2010..
It’s a shame this piece of code is totally left unloved.
Genkernel is handy but really lacks attention and the so called maintainers have totally lost interested in it, kinda obvious when you read at the commit dates *and* the number of patches left unreplied.
Still, thanks for bumping it, it’s never too late.. (well almost knowing the number of different (better?) alternatives that pop up given the stale state of GK)
I use genkernel on almost all kernel I’m compiling, so thank you for this tool.