From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271606AbTG2MHB (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2003 08:07:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271686AbTG2MHB (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2003 08:07:01 -0400 Received: from crosslink-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.254]:60399 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271606AbTG2MG4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2003 08:06:56 -0400 Subject: Re: 2.6-test2: gcc-3.3.1 warning. From: Alan Cox To: Tomas Szepe Cc: "J.A. Magallon" , Kurt Wall , Luiz Capitulino , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20030729102007.GC1286@louise.pinerecords.com> References: <1059396053.442.2.camel@lorien> <20030728225017.GJ32673@louise.pinerecords.com> <20030729002221.GD263@kurtwerks.com> <20030729045512.GM32673@louise.pinerecords.com> <20030729092857.GA28348@werewolf.able.es> <20030729093521.GA1286@louise.pinerecords.com> <20030729094820.GC28348@werewolf.able.es> <20030729095858.GB1286@louise.pinerecords.com> <20030729101126.GC29124@werewolf.able.es> <20030729102007.GC1286@louise.pinerecords.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1059479661.3118.5.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 29 Jul 2003 12:57:52 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Maw, 2003-07-29 at 11:20, Tomas Szepe wrote: > > What is the difference between backporting a patch from 3.3.1-pre to 3.3, > > and using 3.3.1-pre directly ? Ah, that you get less bug corrected. > > Large. 3.3 is a development series. It DOES introduce new stuff. > > In production environments you definitely want to stick with 3.2.3 > or (better yet) 2.95.3. 3.2 is probably the best, but lots of people are using gcc 3.3 to build kernels and so far all the things we've hit have been the stricter parser throwing up on technically invalid C in the kernel source/