Re: starting with 2.7

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

On 4 Jan 2005, at 21:18, David Lang wrote:

> Sorry, I've been useing kernel.org kernels since the 2.0 days and even 
> within a stable series I always do a full set of tests before 
> upgrading. every single stable series has had 'paper bag' releases, 
> and every single one has had fixes to drivers that have ended up 
> breaking those drivers.
>
> the only way to know if a new kernel will work on your hardware is to 
> try it. It doesn't matter if the upgrade is from 2.4.24 to 2.4.25 or 
> 2.6.9 to 2.6.10 or even 2.4.24 to 2.6.10
>
> anyone who assumes that just becouse the kernel is in the stable 
> series they can blindly upgrade their production systems is just 
> dreaming.

It's not a problem of blindly upgrading, but a problem of knowing that 
most of the kernel interfaces do remain stable to reduce the number of 
possible problems.

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