Matthew Burgess wrote:
Folks,
For those of you not following LKML, there's been a really really long thread regarding how the kernel development process can be adapted to improve the stability/quality of the 2.6.x kernels. The original thread starts at http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0503.0/0512.html, but the upshot of it all is the release of 2.6.11.1 announced at http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0503.0/1451.html.
We had a short discussion a little while ago when the -as tree came into existence and now I think the time is right to go and use this not-quite-vanilla tree. There were some pretty big issues with the 2.6.11 kernel (e.g. keyboards on some Dell Laptops not working, etc.) so I think that using this stabilisation tree can only improve the quality of LFS.
Thoughts and comments greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Matt.
I like this idea myself. I've hated the lack of a truly "stable" kernel release for quite some time, and it's always been a source of great frustration for me as an LFSer. I don't want to test kernels on my workstations or servers, I want them to be stable...and that's quite difficult with the way kernel development has been over the last few months - so I welcome this.
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