On 12-08-26 10:15 AM, wbrana wrote: > On 8/26/12, Mark Lord <ker...@teksavvy.com> wrote: >> Here are a couple of real scenarios you don't seem to have thought about. >> A 32-bit kernel on a legacy (or even new) system in 2017 will still need >> regular kernel updates (not "long term" un0maintained kernels) >> in order to work with new USB devices, new 4KB+ sector hard drives, >> newer generations of SSDs, etc.. > 12-years-old machine is trash.
There you go making assumptions again. Who said anything about a 12-year old machine? Much more likely is a 5-year old software installation that gets moved to a new box. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/