linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.21

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Message-Id: <1177886010.5791.166.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:33:30 +0200
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
Cc:	Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@...il.com>,
	Diego Calleja <diegocg@...il.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.21

On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 00:19 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > Don't be silly, did any of the developers say, that he has spare time to
> > read your regression lists ?
> 
> It worked because several people (including Linus) emphasized that 
> fixing regressions from this list was important.

Right. Simply because these lists are assembled by someone

- who knows how to pick that reports from the mailinglists
- who knows how to sort them in a useful way
- who knows how to add the relevant folks on CC
- ....

Can you see the pattern ?

> And it failed because many regressions still stayed unfixed and some 
> even undebugged.

No it failed not. It is not perfect. Way more bugs, which have been
fixed or are in the debugging process, would have been unnoticed and
ignored otherwise.

> > So what are you complaining about ? Folks stepped up and built a
> > regression list and posted it to LKML. What's wrong with that ?
> 
> If it works it's perfectly fine.

It will work not much different from your lists. It'll be not perfect
either.

	tglx


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