linux-kernel - Re: A proposal; making 2.6.20 a bugfix only version.

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Date:	Wed, 8 Nov 2006 14:51:50 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Cc:	Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
Subject: Re: A proposal; making 2.6.20 a bugfix only version.

On Wed, 08 Nov 2006 23:22:11 +0100
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> wrote:

> > - A while back, akpm made some statements about being worried that the
> > 2.6 kernel is getting buggier
> > (http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6069363.html).
> 
> and at this years Kernel Summit actual data

Not true.  70% of surveyed users had hit a new kernel bug.  Of those bugs,
30% remained unresolved.  I don't know what our quality targets are, but I
suggest they're a little higher than that.

> and general consensus showed
> this was unfounded fear;

There you finger the problem.
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