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Message-ID: <20070124173342.79076.qmail@web52912.mail.yahoo.com>
Date:	Wed, 24 Jan 2007 17:33:42 +0000 (GMT)
From:	Chris Rankin <rankincj@...oo.com>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.18-stable release plans?

--- Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com> wrote:
> All I'm claiming is that it's no more a reason to avoid 2.6.19*
> than to avoid any other release (the kernels before 2.6.7 happened
> to have no such check, but that doesn't imply they were any safer).

There is *one* reason to avoid 2.6.19.x: it has actually bitten me, while none of the others has.
And if I can't trust a kernel to compile something then what good is it?

Cheers,
Chris



	
	
		
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