Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 3 Dec 2005 18:39:12 +0000 | From | "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <> | Subject | Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel |
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Hi Adrian, I would really appreciate such a move to a stable series. I've had some really bad luck with instability of 2.6.x - in particular with NFS.
Would such a stable kernel keep up to date on basic drivers? I ask since I got into a messy situation on a series of production servers; they were really new Dell servers using standard Intel chipsets but needed SATA stuff that went in recently. Does 2.6.16 have the basic infrastructure for all the current hardware so that if you branch now you aren't going to have to do any really heavy backports to be able to run on 'current' hardware?
I hit the situation where I have a 2.6.5 kernel I use on everything else and whose NFS works fine; and 2.6.11 or newer which supports the hardware - but whose NFS is giving me broken locking to some obscure systems.
IMHO we've also got into a real mess where it is vendor kernels that have stability fixes in for many things (NFS in particular) - but the lkml doesn't want to know about vendor kernels, but at the same time they aren't up for stabilisation.
Good luck with such a branch!
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