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Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:07:08 +1100 From: Bron Gondwana <brong@...tmail.fm> To: Christian Kujau <lists@...dbynature.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 10:56:01PM +0100, Christian Kujau wrote: > On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: >> There are a number of process things we _could_ do. Like >> - have bugfix-only kernel releases > > Adrian Bunk does (did?) this with 2.6.16.x, although it always seemed to me > like an unrewarded one man show. AFAIK not even the big distros are begging > for bugfix-only versions, as they too want to have (sell) new features. > Mission critical systems might want to require such versions, but I guess > they're using heavily customized trees anyway. And congratulations to him for that. We almost entirely dropped 2.6.16, but there's a regression some time since then that makes large MMAPed files a major pain (specifically the dcc database clean takes about 5 minutes on 2.6.16 and about 12 hours on 2.6.20 or 2.6.23 series kernels) But we keep putting off writing a small testcase that can repeat the issue so we can bisect it - because it's working fine with 2.6.16 on that machine. Bron. - 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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