Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 29 Sep 2002 17:38:17 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: v2.6 vs v3.0 |
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On Sun, Sep 29 2002, Alan Cox wrote: > On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 10:12, Jens Axboe wrote: > > 2.5 is definitely desktop stable, so please test it if you can. Until > > recently there was a personal show stopper for me, the tasklist > > deadlock. Now 2.5 is happily running on my desktop as well. > > Its very hard to make that assessment when the audio layer still doesnt > work, most scsi drivers havent been ported, most other drivers are full > of 2.4 fixed problems and so on.
I can only talk for myself, 2.5 works fine here on my boxes. Dunno what you mean about audio layer, emu10k works for me.
SCSI drivers can be a real problem. Not the porting of them, most of that is _trivial_ and can be done as we enter 3.0-pre and people show up running that on hardware that actually needs to be ported. The worst bit is error handling, this I view as the only problem.
Update of drivers to 2.4 level is mainly a matter of Dave (or someone else) resyncing his -dj tree and feeding it back to Linus.
> Most of my boxes won't even run a 2.5 tree yet. I'm sure its hardly > unique. Middle of November we may begin to find out how solid the core > code actually is, as drivers get fixed up and also in the other > direction as we eliminate numerous crashes caused by "fixed in 2.4" bugs
Well why don't they run with 2.5?
Alan, I think you are a pessimist painting a much bleaker picture of 2.5 than it deserves. Sure lots of drivers may be broken still, I would be naive if I thought that this is all changed in time for oct 31. Most of these will not be fixed until people actually _use_ 2.5 (or 3.0-pre, or whatever it will be called), and that will not happen until Linus actually releases a -rc or similar. And so the fsck what? Noone expects 2.6-pre/3.0-pre to be perfect.
I'm not worried.
-- Jens Axboe
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