linux-kernel - Re: Slow DOWN, please!!!

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Date:	Thu, 01 May 2008 12:39:41 -0400
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, davem@...emloft.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jirislaby@...il.com
Subject: Re: Slow DOWN, please!!!

On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:52:44 PDT, "H. Peter Anvin" said:

> This fragmentation is largely intentional, of course -- everyone can 
> pick a risk level appropriate for them -- but it does mean:
> 
> a) The lag for a patch to ride through the pipeline is pretty long.
> b) The section of people who are going to use the more aggressive trees 
> for "real work" testing is going to be small.

And another problem is that often, it's hard to get good "real work" coverage
over the whole tree.  I just discovered an apparent borkage somewhere in
the networking/wireless area that seems to have gotten into Linus's tree
somewhere between 24-rc8 and 24-final, just because I haven't beaten on
my wireless card in the last few weeks, so I didn't notice a regression in
'ip link show' related to the rfkill switch...

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