linux-kernel - Re: How many people are using 2.6.16?

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Message-ID: <20070130203933.GJ3754@stusta.de>
Date:	Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:39:33 +0100
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
To:	Bron Gondwana <brong@...tmail.fm>
Cc:	Mike Houston <mikeserv@...s.com>,
	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How many people are using 2.6.16?

On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 09:13:00AM +1100, Bron Gondwana wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 04:04:48PM -0500, Mike Houston wrote:
> > On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:30:00 -0500
> > Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Is there any way to estimate the size of the user base for 2.6.16?
> > > 
> > > e.g. how many downloads does it get?
> > 
> > I've often wondered that myself, as I'm concerned for it to continue
> > to be maintained. I'm very appreciative of what Adrian is doing with
> > it. (Thanks!)
> 
> We're still running 2.6.16 kernels on a bunch of machines, though 2.6.19
> has been looking pretty nice on the couple of machines that are testing
> it.  2.6.17 and 2.6.18 felt less stable.
> 
> We do a lot of Cyrus which does a lot of MMAP - and we also use the 
> Areca driver - which are both strong reasons to move to 2.6.19.2, but
> if the MMAP fix was ported back to 2.6.16 we might consider staying
> there instead.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I understand the problem
the mmap bug was introduced in 2.6.19.

> Bron.

cu
Adrian

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