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Message-ID: <20080501134955.GA6957@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 09:49:55 -0400 From: lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) To: David Newall <davidn@...idnewall.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Slow DOWN, please!!! On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 02:01:43PM +0930, David Newall wrote: [snip] > Stop telling the world that 2.6.25 is ready for them when you know it's > not. It's now ready for beta testing, and no more. Is 2.6.24 ready for > the world yet? There are still problems being reported with it. If a kernel release works without problems on 9999 out of 10000 machines, is it stable? How few specific combinations of hardware are there allowed to be with any problems before you can call it stable? How do you know a problem you see wasn't tested by 500 people none of whom had any problems because none of them had the hardware you do? -- Len Sorensen -- 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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