Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Oct 2004 01:40:16 -0400 | From | Chuck Ebbert <> | Subject | Re: My thoughts on the "new development model" |
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Bill Davidsen wrote:
> I don't see the need for a development kernel, and it is desirable to be > able to run kernel.org kernels.
Problem is, kernel.org 'release' kernels are quite buggy. For example 2.6.9 has a long list of bugs:
- superio parports don't work - TCP networking using TSO gives memory allocation failures - s390 has a serious security bug (sacf) - ppp hangup is broken with some peers - exec leaks POSIX timer memory and loses signals - auditing can deadlock - O_DIRECT and mmap IO can't be used together - procfs shows the wrong parent PID in some cases - i8042 fails to initialize with some boards using legacy USB - kswapd still goes into a frenzy now and then
Sure, the next release will (may?) fix these bugs, but it will definitely add a whole set of new ones.
--Chuck Ebbert 26-Oct-04 01:36:21 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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