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From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: Adam McKenna <adam-dated-1018827432.0ef497@flounder.net>
Cc: David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The latest -ac patch to the stable Linux kernels
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 18:05:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020410010529.GC23513@matchmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020409233710.GD22300@flounder.net> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0204091646380.28293-100000@dlang.diginsite.com>

On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 04:47:47PM -0700, David Lang wrote:
> all the -ac kernels need to be treated as -pre
>

Exactly.

> if you watch in detail you can pick ones that are more likly to be stable
> then others, but some of them will be intentionally cutting edge.
> 

Alan does have a track record of stable kernels, but his tree does have
quite a lot of experimental patches in it.  He does warn about patches that
could be quite bad though (think ide and the recent suspend patches).

In fact, I'm using some -ac kernels in production after it has survived on
my workstation for a while and there haven't been any bug reports for the
stuff I use...

Also, 2.4.18 is the first time that I've seen Alan have -ac patches directly
against 2.4.xx instead of 2.4.xx-pre.  Unless he says otherwise I wouldn't
expect that to happen again.

Mike

  reply	other threads:[~2002-04-10  1:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-09 23:01 The latest -ac patch to the stable Linux kernels Adam McKenna
2002-04-09 23:37 ` David Ford
     [not found]   ` <20020409233710.GD22300@flounder.net>
2002-04-09 23:47     ` David Lang
2002-04-10  1:05       ` Mike Fedyk [this message]
2002-04-11 20:38       ` Adam McKenna
2002-04-11 20:53         ` Rik van Riel
2002-04-10  5:00     ` David Ford
2002-04-10  6:16       ` Bill Davidsen
2002-04-10 12:02     ` Denis Vlasenko

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