On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 08:30:26AM -0700, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > I think everything is getting pretty messy recently - I was pretty > satisfied with 2.6.20 and then tried 2.6.24. In fact I can not compile > 2.6.20 right now because after an upgrade debian testing comes with > gcc-4.3 that has a background struggle about who's wrong between gcc > people and Linus Torvalds and the issue is still open. That's an issue between you and Debian, just downgrade your version of gcc if you don't like this. Or use a distro that allows multiple versions of gcc to be installed at the same time (I trivially switch between 4 versions of gcc on my box.) Either way, it's not a kernel issue, how could you blame 2.6.20 for gcc 4.3 issues when gcc 4.3 was not even released when .20 was released? Are us kernel people time travellers? > So what I'm pleading for is to focus on stability! What exactly do you propose for such a "focus"? How do you see this happening? > And yes I'm planing to try 2.6.26, but I'm pretty sure that there > would be issues with drivers like uvcview, the proprietary ATI and > NVidia and apps like skype Closed source drivers have issues, film at 11. Bah, take it up with them, there is NOTHING that us developers can do about that, sorry. Applications are a different story, they should "just work" with different kernel versions, there should not be any problems there. If there are, let the kernel developers know, we take backwards userspace compatiblity VERY seriously. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
