From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 30 May 2001 16:14:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 30 May 2001 16:14:35 -0400 Received: from router-100M.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.17]:58119 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 30 May 2001 16:14:26 -0400 Subject: Re: Plain 2.4.5 VM... (and 2.4.5-ac3) To: linuxkernel@AdvancedResearch.org (Vincent Stemen) Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 21:11:20 +0100 (BST) Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mikeg@wen-online.de (Mike Galbraith) In-Reply-To: <01053014585700.01976@quark> from "Vincent Stemen" at May 30, 2001 02:58:57 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > There was a new 8139too driver added to the the 2.4.5 (I think) kernel > which Alan Cox took back out and reverted to the old one in his > 2.4.5-ac? versions because it is apparently causing lockups. > Shouldn't this new driver have been released in a 2.5.x development > kernel and proven there before replacing the one in the production > kernel? I haven't even seen a 2.5.x kernel released yet. Nope. The 2.4.3 one is buggy too - but differently (and it turns out a little less) buggy. Welcome to software.