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Message-Id: <1C9991E6-04F3-493D-9236-D24E95BB609F@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 17:32:57 -0600 From: Mark Rustad <mrustad@...il.com> To: Alan <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Chris Rankin <rankincj@...oo.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.18-stable release plans? On Jan 24, 2007, at 5:11 PM, Alan wrote: >> 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. Exactly. Halting use of a version of the kernel based on a single incident provides no insight to the source of the problem. It could be anything... -- Mark Rustad, MRustad@....com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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