On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> >> I run gentoo x86 stable, so that I usually avoid this sort of thing. >> >> This kernel, however, looks balky to me, because it's reporting >> warnings and other oddities during compilation. I don't like warnings >> at any time, and with the kernel's make wrappers cleaning up the >> output they tend to stand out. >> >> Here's what I get: >> -- various type/attribute warnings >> -- reports of deprecated elements >> -- a report of "section mismatches", and instructions to use "make >> CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y" to find details. >> >> All that being said, the compilation completes, and I can boot it. I >> don't know the cause, but I have been unable to get vmware-server >> running on it, and I'm going back to the previous kernel for that >> reason. > > I hope you're not implying that a kernel should not be declared stable > simply because a vmware product lags behind in kernel support? vmware 4 > lacks support for kernel 2.6 alltogether, maybe we should only have 2.4 > stable because of that.
I am not suggesting that the vmware stuff should prevent releasing a kernel. I am suggesting that pages of cryptic and unusual output, not to mention warnings and deprecation from the kernel's own make is cause for users to worry about the kernel and wonder WTF. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
