The latest -ac patch to the stable Linux kernels
[email protected] reports the following:
The latest stable version of the Linux kernel is: 2.4.18
But,
The latest -ac patch to the stable Linux kernels is: 2.4.19-pre5-ac3
These seem somewhat contradictory.. Shouldn't the second one report 2.4.18-ac3?
--Adam
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Not at all.
Alan's most recent patch is in line with the 2.4.19 series of patches, these are pre patches to the upcoming 2.4.19.
Regardless. Alan is free to name his patches however he wants.
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Quoted 13 lines · Adam McKenna
[email protected] reports the following:
The latest stable version of the Linux kernel is: 2.4.18
But,
The latest -ac patch to the stable Linux kernels is: 2.4.19-pre5-ac3
These seem somewhat contradictory.. Shouldn't the second one report 2.4.18-ac3?
--Adam
Well, shortly put, the -ac tree is much more -pre than the -pre patches are. Using -ac patches is jumping ahead of the -pre patches normally.
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Quoted 16 lines · Adam McKenna
Quoted 4 lines · David Ford
Not at all.
Alan's most recent patch is in line with the 2.4.19 series of patches, these are pre patches to the upcoming 2.4.19.
Right, but (as far as I know) 2.4.19-pre6 is not considered the "stable linux kernel", is it? So how could 2.4.19-pre5-ac3 be the latest -ac patch to the stable linux kernel? It's more like "the latest -ac patch to the latest prepatch for the stable linux kernel".
What I'm really complaining about is that for people who don't like to use -pre kernels (like me), [email protected] is useless for finding out what the latest -ac patch is to a non-pre kernel.
Quoted 2 lines · David Ford
Well, shortly put, the -ac tree is much more -pre than the -pre patches are. Using -ac patches is jumping ahead of the -pre patches normally.
At one point Alan posted "I actually run my kernels" and I think that's
important. In some cases they contain perfectly stable features which are not in the mainline for... I don't want to say "political reasons," but reasons of policy rather than technical issues. I have run production on rmap and O(1) for a while, but they seem destined to stay in 2.5 near term.
The -ac has the new ServerRAID driver from IBM. Since I have systems
using the hardware which are timezones away, anything which tends to stability is good in my use. New firmware means new drivers (often) and the IBM update CD has a binary module only. I'll try the pre5-ac3 instead.
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Quoted 3 lines · Adam McKenna
What I'm really complaining about is that for people who don't like to use -pre kernels (like me), [email protected] is useless for finding out what the latest -ac patch is to a non-pre kernel.
People like you shouldn't use -ac. It is even slightly more experimental than -pre. Wait for non-pre or take the risk of -pre[-ac].
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The latest -ac patch to the stable Linux kernels is: 2.4.18-ac3
The latest -ac pre-patch to the stable Linux kernels is: 2.4.19-pre5-ac3
As I understand it there is only one "latest -ac": the one against latest -pre.
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