Re: My thoughts on the "new development model"

[Chuck Ebbert]

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
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