Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 23 Mar 2003 15:45:38 -0800 | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | Subject | Re: Ptrace hole / Linux 2.2.25 |
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>> O(1) sched may be a bad example ... how about the fact that mainline VM >> is totally unstable? Witness, for instance, the buffer_head stuff. Fixes >> for that have been around for ages. > > "totally unstable" being defined as: My computers don't crash, and my > 100%-mainline test kernels pass various Cerberus/LTP/crashme runs. > > Of course, I am not totally focused on multi-million-dollar computers, so > maybe my perspective is skewed... ;-)
Last time I checked, a 2x machine with 4Gb of RAM didn't cost millions of dollars ;-)
> Fixes should be applied to 2.4-mainline, certainly. Anything else just > wastes developer brain cycles and slows the move to 2.6.
Common vendor _features_ is maybe better done in a separate tree, I'd accept ... I'm just frustrated with the current lack of commonality between distros, I guess.
M.
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