Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261911AbVACXKn (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2005 18:10:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261817AbVACXJi (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2005 18:09:38 -0500 Received: from prgy-npn1.prodigy.com ([207.115.54.37]:38809 "EHLO oddball.prodigy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261931AbVACXGA (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2005 18:06:00 -0500 Message-ID: <41D9CFE0.6090002@tmr.com> Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 18:06:08 -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: Adrian Bunk , William Lee Irwin III , Andries Brouwer , Maciej Soltysiak , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: starting with 2.7 References: <20050102221534.GG4183@stusta.de><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: 1201 Lines: 31 Rik van Riel wrote: > 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... > 2.6 is doing better in terms of staying up, not eating my files, etc. I'm less sure about the things being 'changed' (by design) vs. 'broken' (by unintended bug introduction). My sense is that there are people who want to remove features which are not broken nor causing huge overhead or developer effort. -- -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/