Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261928AbVACWyp (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:54:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261924AbVACWye (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:54:34 -0500 Received: from prgy-npn1.prodigy.com ([207.115.54.37]:35481 "EHLO oddball.prodigy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261928AbVACWxa (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:53:30 -0500 Message-ID: <41D9CCF5.1030809@tmr.com> Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 17:53:41 -0500 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rik van Riel CC: Andries Brouwer , William Lee Irwin III , Maciej Soltysiak , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: starting with 2.7 References: <20050102212427.GG2818@pclin040.win.tue.nl><1697129508.20050102210332@dns.toxicfilms.tv> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1435 Lines: 34 Rik van Riel wrote: > On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Andries Brouwer wrote: > >> You change some stuff. The bad mistakes are discovered very soon. >> Some subtler things or some things that occur only in special >> configurations or under special conditions or just with >> very low probability may not be noticed until much later. > > > Some of these subtle bugs are only discovered a year > after the distribution with some particular kernel has > been deployed - at which point the kernel has moved on > so far that the fix the distro does might no longer > apply (even in concept) to the upstream kernel... > > This is especially true when you are talking about really > big database servers and bugs that take weeks or months > to trigger. > There is a reason why people pay big bucks to Redhat (and others) for a five year contract to back port the bug fixes to the original kernel and software. Barring some huge change I need, I expect to run AS3.0 for four more years for one application, "learning experiences" are not a good thing. -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me - 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/