Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262993AbVAFTn0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 14:43:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262974AbVAFTjO (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 14:39:14 -0500 Received: from zeus.kernel.org ([204.152.189.113]:32426 "EHLO zeus.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261166AbVAFTfz (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 14:35:55 -0500 Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 20:35:10 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: David Lang Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Rik van Riel , Andries Brouwer , William Lee Irwin III , Maciej Soltysiak , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: starting with 2.7 Message-ID: <20050106193510.GL3096@stusta.de> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1387 Lines: 36 On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 12:18:26PM -0800, 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. I was not thinking about a "blindly upgrade". But the question is if you compile and test a kernel, is it every unlikely or relatively common to observe new problems? > David Lang cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - 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/