linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

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Message-ID: <20071115040708.GB15302@brong.net>
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.
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