From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268681AbUHYUib (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Aug 2004 16:38:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268609AbUHYU3Z (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Aug 2004 16:29:25 -0400 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([216.238.38.203]:6662 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268657AbUHYU0v (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Aug 2004 16:26:51 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: not-for-mail From: Bill Davidsen Newsgroups: mail.linux-kernel Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.9-rc1 Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 16:27:24 -0400 Organization: TMR Associates, Inc Message-ID: References: <4B2093FFC31B7A45862B62A376EA7176033C058D@mickey.topnz.ac.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: gatekeeper.tmr.com 1093465226 2781 192.168.12.100 (25 Aug 2004 20:20:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@tmr.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <4B2093FFC31B7A45862B62A376EA7176033C058D@mickey.topnz.ac.nz> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sartorelli, Kevin wrote: > Daniel Andersen wrote: > >>As Linus initially said, there is the possibility of releasing >>a bug-fix patch 2.6.8.2 *after* 2.6.9 has been released. > > > So, in this case, which would be considered the latest stable kernel to be used in production? I can see this getting to a stage where you just pick and hope :-( Do you have some other way to get a kernel now? Do you go to a new kernel right after it's released? Not to mention the question of which patches do you apply as they come out? I like np, but I have used ck and mm (and heavily used aa and ac when they were available). -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me