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

From: Paolo Ciarrocchi
Date: Tue Jul 19 2005 - 05:14:00 EST


2005/7/18, Mark Gross <mgross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 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.

I totaly agree with you, but the real problem is *how* to do that.
Do you have any suggestion ?

--
Paolo
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