Re: Marvell PATA-SATA bridge meets 2.4.x

[Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>]

Rumi Szabolcs wrote:
> On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 14:07:43 -0800
> Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>>>You want to use a 2.6 kernel and talk to Bart, and Jeff about this...
>>>
>>>Well, I don't really want a 2.6 kernel on that machine (yet) because
>>>in my opinion it is not stable enough for a production system.
>>
>>What problems are you having?
> 
> 
> I'm just tracking lkml and seeing all the serious bug reports in 2.6
> each day. Maybe 2.6.3 is really rock stable compared to what 2.4.3 was
> like but compared to VMS 6.2 it looks about as stable as a barrel of
> nitroglycerine, so I thought I better wait for at least 2.6.10
> before even trying to put it on anything in production.
> 
> By the way, I wrote "in my opinion" to avoid starting a flame war on
> that "is 2.6 stable already or not?" thing, now it seems like I've
> failed... ;-)
> 
> So, until the reliability of 2.6 becomes acceptable for everyone I think
> many people would appreciate fixes/backports for 2.4, especially for
> those problems which don't take too much of an effort to fix.

Ok, that's up to you.  I'd still suggest you run it on one not so 
important machine so you get used to it.

Mike