Re: starting with 2.7

[Adrian Bunk]

On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 10:20:40AM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> >The main advantage with stable kernels in the good old days (tm) when 4
> 
> >Nowadays in 2.6, every new 2.6 kernel has several regressions compared
> >to the previous one, and additionally obsolete but used code like
> 
> 2.2 before 2.2.20 also had this kind of problem, as did
> the 2.4 kernel before 2.4.20 or thereabouts.
> 
> I'm pretty sure 2.6 is actually doing better than the
> early 2.0, 2.2 and 2.4 kernels...

My personal impression was that even the 2.6.0-test kernels were much 
better than the 2.4.0-test kernels.

But 2.6.20 will most likely still have the stability of the early 
2.6 kernels instead of a greatly increased stability as observed in 
2.2.20 and 2.4.20 .

cu
Adrian

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