Mark Gray wrote:

Mark Hounschell writes:

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Mark Gray wrote:

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My excuse for using only the stable branch (k_deflt-2.4.19-174 at the moment:-) is that I am working on reverse engineering the Winmodem in my laptop, and I do not want to worry about other people's bugs. (In my defense, as soon as Linus releases a 2.6.0pre* I will run it on at least one of my machines and do my debugging duty :-)

Hate to tell ya but k_deflt-2.4.19-174 also has many things backported from the 2.5.

Just as a BIG for instance, the O(1) scheduler.....

Oh, I am not <<against>> backporting, the kernel development cycle is so slow compared to the release of new hardware that backporting is the only way to go. (If my comments sounded like I was being critical of the practice, perhaps it was only a subconscious attempt to hide my guilt over not helping to debug the backported features :-)

No I was just implying that the kernel you are using might not be as "stable" as you think. Mark