Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 02:19:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 02:19:19 -0400 Received: from tmr-02.dsl.thebiz.net ([216.238.38.204]:28166 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 02:19:19 -0400 Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 02:16:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Davidsen To: David Ford cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: The latest -ac patch to the stable Linux kernels In-Reply-To: <3CB3C6F5.4020706@blue-labs.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, David Ford wrote: > Well, shortly put, the -ac tree is much more -pre than the -pre patches > are. Using -ac patches is jumping ahead of the -pre patches normally. At one point Alan posted "I actually run my kernels" and I think that's important. In some cases they contain perfectly stable features which are not in the mainline for... I don't want to say "political reasons," but reasons of policy rather than technical issues. I have run production on rmap and O(1) for a while, but they seem destined to stay in 2.5 near term. The -ac has the new ServerRAID driver from IBM. Since I have systems using the hardware which are timezones away, anything which tends to stability is good in my use. New firmware means new drivers (often) and the IBM update CD has a binary module only. I'll try the pre5-ac3 instead. -- bill davidsen CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. - 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/