Re: Linux 2.4.20 ACPI

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

Hi!

> >...
> > I disagree with you.  It introduces more enhancements,
> > and more bugfix than the current code.  I admit that tt
> > could introduce some news bugs, but in the balance it
> > should be more stable than before.
> >...
> 
> It's not "in the balance". 2.4 is a stable kernel series. The problem is
> that if you switch from one stable kernel series to another
> (e.g. 2.2 -> 2.4) on a production machine you know that you have to
> check whether everything works as before you upgrade your production
> machines. This can take quite some time. Within a stable kernel series
> everything that worked in earlier kernels within this series should work
> in future kernels in this kernel series. Don't forget that e.g. a
> fixed security problem might force people to do a quick upgrade of
> production machines to the latest kernel in this series.

ACPI is marked experimental (and it *is* experimental), if you run it
on production machine you loose.

								Pavel

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