Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 24 May 2003 08:43:40 +0200 | From | Willy Tarreau <> | Subject | Re: Aix7xxx unstable in 2.4.21-rc2? (RE: Linux 2.4.21-rc2) |
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On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 07:29:53PM -0400, James Bottomley wrote:
> I think there's some misunderstanding about what a release candidate > is. It's an attempt to see if a particular set of code is viable as the > released product. Any bugs reported against a rc that are deemed > problems to the release need to be fixed, either by adding a simple and > easily verifiable bug fix or by reverting the problem code.
That's also my point. People were reporting problems till -rc1 which included driver version 6.2.28. So Marcelo reverted to 6.2.8 for -rc2 (74500 lines of code reverted, not including doc nor aic79xx which was kept). Then, people were still reporting problems with -rc2 which they claim are fixed by updating to last driver updates, which were 16000 lines forward from -rc1, so less than one fourth of what Marcelo accepted to change from -rc1 to -rc2. Although I find this big, it's less than the change in fusion/mpt* that has gone from -rc2 to -rc3. So I think it's not a matter of size here.
> The bksend file on http://people.freebsd.org/~gibbs/linux/SRC/ > representing the requested updates is 475k compressed. There's no > definition of the phrase "simple and easily verifiable bug fix" I can > encompass that could be applied to a chunk of code that size.
Most of this is a 1 MB Changelog, files going back to their original place (Marcelo moved aic79xx to a proper directory to keep it), documentation, and initialization code which was exploded in more little functions, then bug fixes.
I wish Justin would have proposed a little patch to fix only the locking bugs in -rc1, but honnestly, why should he fix only these bugs when he knows about others that must be fixed too ? I can understand he gives up. -rc is for bug fixes, and his bug fixes are reverted !
As I said, I really hope that we'll have a quick 2.4.22 with bug fixes taken as a priority. The current pre-releases are as frequent and as big as what used to be full releases in the past.
Regards, Willy
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