On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 12:10:46PM +0100, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:

> By most accounts Linus has seriously broken the concept of a stable
> kernel with the latest series.  Alan Cox has been really scathing of
> his behaviour.  There have been far too many fundamental changes in
> the recent "stable" versions.

Only because the VM sucked bigtime in the previous 2.4.x kernels.
I'm not trying to defend Linus, mind you, just saying that
something needed to be done to fix it.  You never know, Rik's VM
patches for the -ac series might have never occured (or occured
much later) if 2.4.10 didn't roll out with Andrea's VM.

> Avoid anything after 2.4.9 for now I think.  I tried upgrading
> recently and it broke ALSA among other things.

Well, 2.4.10 works fine with ALSA for me, but it does seem to
break the pcmcia-cs cardbus support, although I don't know whether
that's due to my incompetence.

All I can say is that 2.5 better start soon ... (yeah yeah me and
everyone else).


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