I see that we got a new kernel for 11.1 shortly before end of life. This might extend the period useability quite a bit. Anyone knows what exactly the relevant changes are?
There should be some info in Yast
View the kernel > Then change log
I have no 11.1 system around here, but this is an overview of changes since 2.6.26.54:
2010-11-22 Greg Kroah... Linux 2.6.27.56 v2.6.27.56
2010-11-22 Christof Schmitt Fix race when removing SCSI devices
2010-11-22 Dan Carpenter gdth: integer overflow in ioctl
2010-11-22 David Milburn libsas: fix NCQ mixing with non-NCQ
2010-11-22 Mathieu Desnoyers sched: Fix string comparison in /proc/sched_features
2010-11-22 Vasiliy Kulikov pcmcia: synclink_cs: fix information leak to userland
2010-10-29 Greg Kroah... Linux 2.6.27.55 v2.6.27.55
2010-10-29 Roland McGrath execve: make responsive to SIGKILL with large arguments
2010-10-29 Roland McGrath execve: improve interactivity with large arguments
2010-10-29 Roland McGrath setup_arg_pages: diagnose excessive argument size
2010-10-29 Paul Fertser b44: fix carrier detection on bind
2010-10-29 Michael Neuling powerpc: Don't use kernel stack with translation off
2010-10-29 Matt Evans powerpc: Initialise paca->kstack before early_setup_sec...
2010-10-29 Ben Hutchings r6040: Fix multicast list iteration when hash filter...
2010-10-29 Florian Fainelli r6040: fix r6040_multicast_list
2010-10-29 FUJITA Tomonori bsg: fix incorrect device_status value
2010-10-29 Luca Tettamanti atl1: fix resume
2010-10-29 Johannes Berg wext: fix potential private ioctl memory content leak
2010-10-29 Simon Guinot dmaengine: fix interrupt clearing for mv_xor
2010-10-29 Linus Torvalds v4l1: fix 32-bit compat microcode loading translation
2010-10-29 Dan Rosenberg ALSA: prevent heap corruption in snd_ctl_new()
2010-10-29 Dan Rosenberg ALSA: sound/pci/rme9652: prevent reading uninitialized...
2010-10-29 Luck, Tony guard page for stacks that grow upwards
2010-10-29 Jeff Moyer aio: check for multiplication overflow in do_io_submit
Seems like a couple of minor bugfixes to me.
Seems to have broken my Wake-On-Lan (WOL) support with an ASUS P5B motherboard using the r8168 driver.
Anyone else have a similar problem? Everything worked great with 2.6.27.48