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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 17:33:42 +0000 (GMT)
From: Chris Rankin <rankincj@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.18-stable release plans?
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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--- Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> wrote:
> All I'm claiming is that it's no more a reason to avoid 2.6.19*
> than to avoid any other release (the kernels before 2.6.7 happened
> to have no such check, but that doesn't imply they were any safer).

There is *one* reason to avoid 2.6.19.x: it has actually bitten me, while none of the others has.
And if I can't trust a kernel to compile something then what good is it?

Cheers,
Chris


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