linux-kernel - Re: [git patches] libata fixes

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Date:	Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:33:09 -0400
From:	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [git patches] libata fixes

Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> There is another metric to look at, too: the number of fixes which are
> going into 2.6.x.y.  If that fix count is high, and if those fixes fix bugs
> which were not present in 2.6.x-1 then this is an indication that something
> is wrong - many regressions are sneaking through the -rc process.
> 
> And I haven't run the numbers, but I get the impression that 2.6.20.x has
> an unusually large number of fixes in it.

That could be because people are getting better at actually fixing bugs
in the previous release. :)

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