linux-kernel - Re: [1/2] 2.6.22-rc5: known regressions with patches v2

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Message-ID: <20070622125428.28934ee0@the-village.bc.nu>
Date:	Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:54:28 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	"Ni@m" <niam.niam@...il.com>
Cc:	"Michal Piotrowski" <michal.k.k.piotrowski@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [1/2] 2.6.22-rc5: known regressions with patches v2

On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:39:50 +0300
"Ni@m" <niam.niam@...il.com> wrote:

> > We have patches for "very high non-preempt latency in
> > context_struct_compute_av()" and "list_add corruption. prev->next
> > should be next (f7d28794), but was f0df8ed4 (prev=f0df8ed4) Kernel Bug
> > at lib/list_debug.c:33", but both are too intrusive.
> >
> > Anyway, those bugs are not regressions.
> The question was "why linux kernel release should have some bugs that
> would be fixed fixed in future?"

Because those bug fixes are intrusive so will potentially cause more
other bugs that will need fixing - so make the kernel a worse not a
better one in the short term.

> Let's wait and publish kernel w/o known bugs. 

That would be a bit like waiting for a Debian release and never happen.

Alan
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