Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: >My opinion here is that it's important to really know what level of risk >you are comfortable with what level of risk you are comfortable with. >Watch the relase announcements carefully. When the maintainer or the >person supplying the patches says "be careful, this is a big merge", >listen to them! I avoided a number of -ac kernels and pretty much >everything from 2.4.13 to 2.4.15 (wisely, as it turned out) because >there was a lot of merging going on from Alan's tree to the Linus tree >and this was in conjunction with other changes, so there were bound to >be a few missteps. Things seem to have settled down again and 2.4.16 is >running happily on one machine. > I must admit to needing the gurus in the group to tell me that I really should upgrade my kernel 2.4.9 to version X for these reasons occasionally. I am basically happy staying on the trailing edge and letting the others bleed but at the same time I do not want to be stuck in the dark ages.
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