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["Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting flux <flux AT sourcemage.org>:

> My dear Source Mage community,
>
> I am considering updating the kernel version used on the ISOs to
> something more recent. However, considering the recent disparate state
> of kernel "releases", I'm concerned about how stable a more recent
> version would be. Ensuring that 2.6.22 was working the way it should was
> a nuisance already, so I'd like to make sure that any version I update
> to is known to work reasonably well (and close enough to how 2.6.22
> works) that updating to it wouldn't open a pandora's box of new problems
> to deal with.
>
> Therefore, I'd like to ask for some feedback from all of you about your
> success, and lack thereof as well, with kernel versions 2.6.23* though
> 2.6.27*. I've read about some issues with almost all of them (though the
> 2.6.23 series was rather low for such reports). I'm not particularly
> concerned with reports along the lines of "version 2.6.X doesn't support
> my hardware" if your hardware was simply too new for that version. What
> I am really concerned with is "my hardware worked in version 2.6.X, but
> was broken for 2.6.Y", where X < Y. Also, if a given kernel version
> "works", but is unstable, that's also something to note.
>
> I need as many people to respond about this as possible, for statistical
> plausibility.

2.6.27.6 cannot build the r8169[0] driver, 2.6.27.5 could. Talking  
with Vlad he and I both noticed funky atkbd issues (I don't recall  
when this started, just "lately") where keys are sent in the wrong  
order, e.g.
  I type: Hello, how are you?
   I see: Hello,h ow arey ou?

I thought perhaps my typing skills had just degenerated, but I am not  
alone! :)

-sandalle

[0] http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122703112423031

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