linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.18-stable release plans?

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Message-ID: <20070124231153.6bc04063@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:11:53 +0000
From:	Alan <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Chris Rankin <rankincj@...oo.com>
Cc:	Mark Rustad <mrustad@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.18-stable release plans?

> I am going to assume that you are being facaetious, because it would be the rarified pinnacle of
> supreme arrogance to suggest that a cosmic ray event is a more likely explanation than a bug in
> the kernel.

A one off non repeatable error experienced by two people out of the
millions using it does fit the cosmic ray description quite well. That's
not to say there isn't a bug, but you don't have enough data to even
begin debugging it unless its rather more reproducable.

Alan
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