Re: 2.6.16-rc4: known regressions

From: Benjamin LaHaise
Date: Thu Feb 23 2006 - 15:28:52 EST


On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 11:40:24AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> I totally agree. Distros are changing into two different groups these
> days:
> - everything tied together and intregrated nicely for a specific
> kernel version, userspace tool versions, etc.
> - flexible and works with multiple kernel versions, different
> userspace tools, etc.
>
> Distros in the first category are the "enterprise" releases (RHEL, SLES,
> etc.), as well as some consumer oriented distros (SuSE, Ubuntu, Fedora
> possibly.)

That is a completely unreasonable position. It is a requirement for those
of us working on a variety of problems to be able to use new kernels on
the "Enterprise" distributions in the market, as you have to be able to
compare regressions and performance. Swapping out all of userland just
because hotplug can't get it's act together is *NOT* an option.

-ben
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