Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262165AbVADXHJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:07:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262120AbVADXG6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:06:58 -0500 Received: from smtpout.mac.com ([17.250.248.89]:59099 "EHLO smtpout.mac.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262397AbVADXEZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:04:25 -0500 In-Reply-To: References: <1697129508.20050102210332@dns.toxicfilms.tv> <20050102203615.GL29332@holomorphy.com> <20050102212427.GG2818@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <20050103153438.GF2980@stusta.de> <1104767943.4192.17.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20050104174712.GI3097@stusta.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Adrian Bunk , Arjan van de Ven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Rik van Riel , William Lee Irwin III , Maciej Soltysiak , Andries Brouwer From: Felipe Alfaro Solana Subject: Re: starting with 2.7 Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 00:03:52 +0100 To: David Lang X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1097 Lines: 25 On 4 Jan 2005, at 21:18, David Lang wrote: > Sorry, I've been useing kernel.org kernels since the 2.0 days and even > within a stable series I always do a full set of tests before > upgrading. every single stable series has had 'paper bag' releases, > and every single one has had fixes to drivers that have ended up > breaking those drivers. > > the only way to know if a new kernel will work on your hardware is to > try it. It doesn't matter if the upgrade is from 2.4.24 to 2.4.25 or > 2.6.9 to 2.6.10 or even 2.4.24 to 2.6.10 > > anyone who assumes that just becouse the kernel is in the stable > series they can blindly upgrade their production systems is just > dreaming. It's not a problem of blindly upgrading, but a problem of knowing that most of the kernel interfaces do remain stable to reduce the number of possible problems. - 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/