Re: Kernel Oops on hot insertion of USB

Yinghai Lu
2008-04-12T19:08:55Z

On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> A: No.
> Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?
>
> On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 11:20:08AM +0200, Rachmel, Nir (Nir) wrote:
> > Hi greg,
> >
> > Thanks for your reply. I am aware that I am "a bit" far behind in the
> > Linux revsions tree,
>
> Just a "bit", if you consider almost 3 years and many hundreds of
> thousands of changes a "bit" :)
>
> > however it will be very difficult for me to upgrade.
>
> Why? Userspace should work just fine. If you are relying on custom
> kernel modules, well, I think you now know the reason the kernel
> developers are saying for people to get their code upstream to prevent
> this kind of issue...
>
> > I have done much work and testing with 2.6.14.7 and would
> > prefer to patch it over upgrading it to the current version.
>
> Hopefully you are able to patch all of the bugs and security issues that
> have been found in the past 3 years.

should be typo. Is there any 2.6.14.7 ?, it could be 2.6.24.7

YH