Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:07:08 +1100 | From | Bron Gondwana <> | Subject | Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs |
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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.
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