[plug] [rant] 2.6 Kernels

[Carl Gherardi]

On 01/09/2004, at 4:16 PM, Michael Collard wrote:

> I am very unimpressed with recent 2.6 kernels :(
>
> With the number of bugs, its resembling something that Microsoft make.
> So far I've found the loop module/code to be broken in 2.6.7 onwards,

Whats the problem with the loop code? I haven't seen anything on the 
kernel list regarding this.

Kernel modules now require a stricter format, basically external 
modules need to compile using the kernel build system - broke the 
cisco_ipsec module for me.

>  cd
> writing under 2.6.8 is borked, kernel oops left right an center & the
> kernel has stability problems with nvidia drivers causing lockups etc.
>

The NVidia drivers have issues with the 4K stacks option in 2.6 up 
until very recently(though I dont think that is in mainline yet)

cd writing needs the burning application needs to be suid to work with 
new kernels to prevent normal users turning their cd burners into 
bricks. Burning audio cds had a major memory leak for several versions 
of 2.6 aswell.

If you had a philips web cam you would have stuck almost all 
contentious issues in 2.6 in the last month(Your not about to use 
reiserfs4 are you? ;)

Carl