On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 08:43:49PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
Joerg Schilling wrote:
Note that the Linux kernel folks do not like that these sources are used
and claim that they are not useful for running a stable system. They
rather point
you to a distribution......
I am very surprised to hear this from you! You have complained many time
over the years that people were finding problems in modified versions of
cdrecord and blaming errors on your source. [...]
Joerg is correct here.
http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3513
"Andrew's vision, as expressed at the summit, is that the mainline
kernel will be the fastest and most feature-rich kernel around, but
not, necessarily, the most stable. Final stabilization is to be
done by distributors (as happens now, really), but the distributors
are expected to merge their patches quickly."
This quote basically applies to all 2.6.* kernels. I stopped building
my own Linux kernels from source a couple years ago. It's just not
worth the pain.
If you consider calling bugs in vendor versions "Linux bugs" he's
correct, Jőerg constantly complains about bugs in derived versions of
cdrecord, and old versions of his software, and hasn't released a
stable version in years and tells people to use alpha quality releases.
To discourage people from trying a released stable kernel before
claiming a Linux bug seems pretty hypocritical to me.