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From: Chris Rankin <rankincj@yahoo.com>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.18-stable release plans?
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 17:33:42 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070124173342.79076.qmail@web52912.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701241607160.17843@blonde.wat.veritas.com>

--- Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> wrote:
> All I'm claiming is that it's no more a reason to avoid 2.6.19*
> than to avoid any other release (the kernels before 2.6.7 happened
> to have no such check, but that doesn't imply they were any safer).

There is *one* reason to avoid 2.6.19.x: it has actually bitten me, while none of the others has.
And if I can't trust a kernel to compile something then what good is it?

Cheers,
Chris



	
	
		
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-24 17:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-24 15:53 Chris Rankin
2007-01-24 16:12 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-01-24 17:33   ` Chris Rankin [this message]
2007-01-24 16:28 ` Mark Rustad
2007-01-24 22:37   ` Chris Rankin
2007-01-24 23:11     ` Alan
2007-01-24 23:05       ` Chris Rankin
2007-01-24 23:32       ` Mark Rustad
2007-01-24 23:45         ` Chris Rankin
2007-01-25  1:00           ` Ken Moffat
2007-01-25  9:16             ` Chris Rankin
2007-01-25 19:36               ` Ken Moffat
2007-01-26 13:02                 ` Chris Rankin
2007-01-25 23:26               ` Alistair John Strachan
2007-01-25  3:05           ` Mark Rustad
2007-01-25 21:04       ` Matt Mackall
2007-02-02  4:02     ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-02-02  6:47       ` Jon Masters
2007-02-02  8:17         ` Valdis.Kletnieks
     [not found] <BC3E207A-1A56-4032-9619-910E80281E9C@gmail.com>
2007-01-25  8:51 ` Chris Rankin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-01-24 15:06 Chris Rankin
2007-01-24 15:40 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-01-24 13:30 Chris Rankin
2007-01-24 14:37 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-01-22 22:13 Chuck Ebbert
2007-01-23  0:23 ` Jesper Juhl
2007-01-23 20:33   ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-01-23 20:56     ` Adrian Bunk
2007-01-24  4:50   ` Daniel Barkalow

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