Re: Why is 2.6.12.2 less stable on my laptop than 2.6.10?

From: Mark Gross
Date: Mon Jul 18 2005 - 16:28:54 EST


On Friday 15 July 2005 16:14, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Mark Gross wrote:
> > What would be wrong in expecting the folks making the driver changes
> > have some story on how they are validating there changes don't break
> > existing working hardware? I could probly be accomplished in open
> > source with subsystem testing volenteers.
>
> Are you volunteering ?

I am not volunteering. That last sentence was meant to say "It could
probubly..."

I'm just poking at a process change that would include a more formal
validation / testing phase as part of getting change into the stable tree. I
don't have any silver bullets.

--
--mgross
BTW: This may or may not be the opinion of my employer, more likely not.

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