The problem is that some complicated changes were made. Those affect
the whole system. So while 2.3.8 may work for a whole bunch of people
we can be pretty sure that it will break for others. Sure, Linus is
optimistic about it.
If I make agraphical representation of the trajectory from 2.3.0 to
2.4.0, it could look like this:
Read the "X" as "change made" and the "---" as "change still hase
some problems.
2.3.0 .8 2.3.99 2.4.0
a X---------
b X-----
c X---------------------------
d X------------------------------
e X------
f X-------------
So, as you can see, there is no moment in the development where
everything is sorted out. All we can say is "everyone for himself". If
it works for you, it might be that you aren't affected by problem C.
That could be because you don't have an SMP machine....
It's a free world. Feel free to try and mark releases as "more stable
than others", for the good of the whole community. However, be warned
that this is a very hard task. You'll have to wade through the
bugreports that simply report "bad hardware". You'll get angry users
on your back if you mark a version "good" which happens to thrash a
filesystem (even if it was their bad hardware that actually caused the
filesystem corruption....).
Roger.
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