Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261474AbVACPWt (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2005 10:22:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261473AbVACPWt (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2005 10:22:49 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:32926 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261474AbVACPWp (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2005 10:22:45 -0500 Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 10:20:40 -0500 (EST) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: riel@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com To: Adrian Bunk cc: William Lee Irwin III , Andries Brouwer , Maciej Soltysiak , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: starting with 2.7 In-Reply-To: <20050102221534.GG4183@stusta.de> Message-ID: References: <1697129508.20050102210332@dns.toxicfilms.tv> <20050102203615.GL29332@holomorphy.com> <20050102212427.GG2818@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <20050102214211.GM29332@holomorphy.com> <20050102221534.GG4183@stusta.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 898 Lines: 22 On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: > The main advantage with stable kernels in the good old days (tm) when 4 > Nowadays in 2.6, every new 2.6 kernel has several regressions compared > to the previous one, and additionally obsolete but used code like 2.2 before 2.2.20 also had this kind of problem, as did the 2.4 kernel before 2.4.20 or thereabouts. I'm pretty sure 2.6 is actually doing better than the early 2.0, 2.2 and 2.4 kernels... -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/