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Stable kernel 2.6.20.2

Stable kernel 2.6.20.2

Posted Mar 10, 2007 5:42 UTC (Sat) by mbottrell (guest, #43008)
Parent article: Stable kernel 2.6.20.2

I'm running 2.6.20.1 mainly due to the huge range of updated hardware (like my PATA device (Intel Core Duo 2 Mobo).

I'll switch over to 2.6.20.2.

I suspect in several months that 2.6.20.x series will be like that of the 2.6.9 was for the enterprise.

A lot of work has gone into the kernel with loads of hardware updates and bugfixes, but there will be a few wrinkles to iron out.

All in all, I haven't found it too bad. :)


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Then you're lucky...

Posted Mar 10, 2007 12:18 UTC (Sat) by rankincj (subscriber, #4865) [Link]

On my machine, 2.6.20.1 often used to BUG when udev parsed the /sys directory structure. It looked like something was accessing freed memory.

And 2.6.20.2 is no better...

Posted Mar 11, 2007 12:38 UTC (Sun) by rankincj (subscriber, #4865) [Link]

So it's back to 2.6.19.7 for me.

And 2.6.20.2 is no better...

Posted Mar 13, 2007 15:21 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Raise a bug / report it?

(FWIW it may be a driver problem: I just iterated over everything in /sys and read everything readable. No BUGs.)

And 2.6.20.2 is no better...

Posted Mar 13, 2007 20:53 UTC (Tue) by chrisw (guest, #27074) [Link]

Can you please make sure you've filed a bug report
so we can track this issue?

And 2.6.20.2 is no better...

Posted Mar 14, 2007 11:31 UTC (Wed) by penberg (subscriber, #30234) [Link]

It's probably the same problem as this:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/10/129

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