2.4.22

[Luke Davis]

I've seen similar odd oppses/panics on bootup, and so on, for 2.4.22, on
other lists (debian-laptop, I think ma-linux, and others).
Again, though, I have no way of knowing the skill level of those users.

Luke


On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Gregory Nowak wrote:

> I think I could exclude the possibility that it's a configuration
> problem, since when going back to 2.4.21, I just did a make oldconfig
> using my config file from 2.4.22 with no other changes. I am also not
> basing my opinion of 2.4.22 on this single machine, since I've tried
> installing it on 2 other machines, both of which froze while booting,
> and before getting to the login prompt. I remember someone else
> reported that same problem on the list a while back, so I know I'm not
> the only person who experienced that particular problem.
>
> Greg
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 07:16:28AM -0500, Kirk Reiser wrote:
> > Well, it's kinda difficult to say for sure what you mean by crap.
> > Certainly we've seen that Greg has had problems with it for whatever
> > reason.  He didn't actually figure out what his problem was so whether
> > it is a kernel code problem or a configuration problem would depend on
> > him hunting down the difficulty which he may not bother doing now that
> > he's got his system working reliably once again.
> >
> > For my part I have not made any concerted effort to move to 2.4.22 but
> > I do have three machines out of about a dozen using it with no
> > difficulties so far.  I would say that 2.6.xx is considerably more
> > flakey than 2.4.22 at this stage and that's taking into consideration
> > that there are major configuration differences between the 2.4.xx and
> > 2.6.xx code lines.
> >
> > So in my opinion 2.4.22 is not particularly scrap.
> >
> >   Kirk
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