Re: My thoughts on the "new development model"

From: Marcos D. Marado Torres
Date: Tue Oct 26 2004 - 21:48:56 EST


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On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, William Lee Irwin III wrote:

It's an existence proof spanning a wide swath of architectures. If
you are not seeing similar results, send bugreports.

I don't neeed to send in bug reports, there are plenty on l-k
right now:
- LVM is currently broken in 2.6.9-mm1
- the RTC and NMI code have a race condition between them
- NFS mount won't accept a FQDN over 50 bytes (patch was
sent and utterly ignored, then recently reposted)
- cdrom driver thinks non-mt. rainier drives are capable

None of the bugs you cite were recently introduced.

Is it relevant?
They exist, they must be fixed. If there is relevancy in this issue, the matter
is "why do we care more about recently introduced bugs (that can be avoided by
using a not-so-recent kernel) instead of caring about those well-known
long-dated bugs?".

Mind Booster Noori

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