Re: [1/2] 2.6.22-rc5: known regressions with patches v2

[Michal Piotrowski]

On 22/06/07, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:39:50 +0300
> "Ni@m" <niam.niam@xxxxxxxxx> 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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