Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:13:59 +0200 | From | "Michal Piotrowski" <> | Subject | Re: [1/2] 2.6.22-rc5: known regressions with patches v2 |
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On 22/06/07, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:39:50 +0300 > "Ni@m" <niam.niam@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > We have patches for "very high non-preempt latency in > > > context_struct_compute_av()" and "list_add corruption. prev->next > > > should be next (f7d28794), but was f0df8ed4 (prev=f0df8ed4) Kernel Bug > > > at lib/list_debug.c:33", but both are too intrusive. > > > > > > Anyway, those bugs are not regressions. > > The question was "why linux kernel release should have some bugs that > > would be fixed fixed in future?" > > Because those bug fixes are intrusive so will potentially cause more > other bugs that will need fixing - so make the kernel a worse not a > better one in the short term. > > > Let's wait and publish kernel w/o known bugs. > > That would be a bit like waiting for a Debian release and never happen.
I'm trying to imagine this - Linux 2.6 "Debian style" roadmap: 15-VII-2007 - release of Linux 2.6.22 1-VIII-2007 - freeze 15-II-2009 - release of Linux 2.6.23 1-III-2009 - freeze 1-IX-2010 - release of Linux 2.6.24
:)
> > Alan >
Regards, Michal
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