Stable kernel 2.6.20.2

Stable kernel 2.6.20.2

Posted Mar 10, 2007 12:39 UTC (Sat) by Duncan (guest, #6647)
In reply to: Stable kernel 2.6.20.2 by leoc
Parent article: Stable kernel 2.6.20.2

Not here! While I had an issue with the rcs (the md/RAID-6 unaligned I/O
log spamming due to an update in that system not updating the logging as
well), I filed a bug on it, and it was fixed. Also, partly due to the
consequences of failure and because it hadn't been working several kernels
back when I last tried it, I hadn't tried hibernate for quite awhile, but
with .20 it was working great, even from with KDE/Xorg. That's no small
milestone when I'm on dual CPU and multiple RAID and LVM, plus the usual
video complications, among other things.

As a result, I stayed on .20 for rather longer than normal, only switching
to .21-rc3 instead of trying -rc1 or 2 as usual. And that was only
because twice now, I've found and filed bugs on rcs, with the result being
that they have been fixed and I've had a working release that otherwise
likely would have been bugged for me, so I /do/ try to test the rcs before
they get /too/ far along, to ensure releases continue to work and be
relatively bug free on my hardware. Otherwise, I think I'd be sticking
with 2.6.20 for some time, as it really was /very/ stable for me.

(FWIW, I've had no problems with 2.6.21-rc3 so far, either, but I didn't
expect to as there wasn't anything in the changelog that looked to be a
major update for my hardware. Now .22 there likely WILL be such major
changes, and with them potential bugs, as at least one major change
confined to x86 this round is planned to expand to amd64/x86_64 and other
archs for .22.)

Duncan

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