Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Apr 2002 18:05:29 -0700 | From | Mike Fedyk <> | Subject | Re: The latest -ac patch to the stable Linux kernels |
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On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 04:47:47PM -0700, David Lang wrote: > all the -ac kernels need to be treated as -pre >
Exactly.
> if you watch in detail you can pick ones that are more likly to be stable > then others, but some of them will be intentionally cutting edge. >
Alan does have a track record of stable kernels, but his tree does have quite a lot of experimental patches in it. He does warn about patches that could be quite bad though (think ide and the recent suspend patches).
In fact, I'm using some -ac kernels in production after it has survived on my workstation for a while and there haven't been any bug reports for the stuff I use...
Also, 2.4.18 is the first time that I've seen Alan have -ac patches directly against 2.4.xx instead of 2.4.xx-pre. Unless he says otherwise I wouldn't expect that to happen again.
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