Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752622AbXA2WhP (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:37:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933012AbXA2WhP (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:37:15 -0500 Received: from paragon.brong.net ([66.232.154.163]:53338 "EHLO paragon.brong.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752623AbXA2WhN (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:37:13 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 1441 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:37:13 EST Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:13:00 +1100 From: Bron Gondwana To: Mike Houston Cc: Chuck Ebbert , linux-kernel , Adrian Bunk Subject: Re: How many people are using 2.6.16? Message-ID: <20070129221300.GC19422@brong.net> References: <45BE5948.6060403@redhat.com> <20070129160448.65fc63f3.mikeserv@bmts.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070129160448.65fc63f3.mikeserv@bmts.com> Organization: brong.net User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1084 Lines: 27 On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 04:04:48PM -0500, Mike Houston wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:30:00 -0500 > Chuck Ebbert wrote: > > > Is there any way to estimate the size of the user base for 2.6.16? > > > > e.g. how many downloads does it get? > > I've often wondered that myself, as I'm concerned for it to continue > to be maintained. I'm very appreciative of what Adrian is doing with > it. (Thanks!) We're still running 2.6.16 kernels on a bunch of machines, though 2.6.19 has been looking pretty nice on the couple of machines that are testing it. 2.6.17 and 2.6.18 felt less stable. We do a lot of Cyrus which does a lot of MMAP - and we also use the Areca driver - which are both strong reasons to move to 2.6.19.2, but if the MMAP fix was ported back to 2.6.16 we might consider staying there instead. Bron. - 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/