From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QkZY0-0005IP-Kj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 10:35:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A714D21C0BC; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 10:34:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gy0-f181.google.com (mail-gy0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2890521C0EF for ; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 10:33:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyg10 with SMTP id 10so2197686gyg.40 for ; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 03:33:53 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=mal8kBPbt5jhzIsa6WxE82JyAdJFVg5CrwLNvabBRjM=; b=UQE/wz6Dhez4QtbTHFuKWS8AKmzk+tgZM+44afynvVw4RZAPUe0UZrBYRNE8wf1bg0 Xz5J4yae4l8o1QUtdS9SBCm1Tm6SaJUDB1YMQIHQMz4byA2fVr79rEWXwNBFU/0O7Sn6 S5XuDKhbV4EO0mwJXhrO19BYWEmhbfoyJQeMI= Received: by 10.90.72.8 with SMTP id u8mr2759187aga.209.1311417233583; Sat, 23 Jul 2011 03:33:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-98-95-151-157.jan.bellsouth.net [98.95.151.157]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id o4sm3226395anj.22.2011.07.23.03.33.52 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 23 Jul 2011 03:33:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E2AA38C.4070108@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 05:33:48 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110708 Gentoo/2.0.14-r1 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.0 and oldconfig References: <4E29FF8B.5040400@gmail.com> <4E2A0AD6.30009@gmail.com> <1311386666.1574607.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4E2A65EF.3060707@gmail.com> <1311416623.668280.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1311416623.668280.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 7b7fd1097d75d29c695ea8b1cb68dffb Albert Hopkins wrote: > > On Saturday, July 23 at 01:10 (-0500), Dale said: > > >> I was hoping since it was a whole different numbering scheme that it >> was >> a major change. That was the reason for my question. I didn't know >> if >> this was major or a normal update or something else. I was hoping >> for >> something like when Seamonkey went from version 1.* to 2.* but this >> is >> not the case. The reason I was hoping for this was because of my >> kernel >> panic issue. I'm still hopeful that something may have been updated >> that will fix my problem but I'm not as hopeful now since this is >> nothing great. >> > Yeah, but a kernel panic is *not* a major issue. They are reported all > the time. And it probably doesn't take a *major* change to fix it. > > To the contrary, *major* changes typically introduce more bugs. So you > probably *don't* want a major change. > > * Major change: re-write or architecture change > * Minor change: bug fixes<-- you want this > > > But sometimes major changes can fix things and do things completely different which can lead to other issues being fixed. Seamonkey did the same when they did their major redo. Bad thing is, the kernel panics are at it again. I had a little bit of time to download a video or two but here we go again. Back to the normal reboots I guess. :-( Dale :-) :-)