Re: Why is 2.6.12.2 less stable on my laptop than 2.6.10?
From: Pavel Machek
Date: Sat Jul 16 2005 - 09:01:26 EST
Hi!
> Why can't I expect SWSusp work better and more reliable from release to
> release?
Patches welcome. Or employ someone to do swsusp development for you.
> Some possible things that could help:
>
> *Addopt a no-regressions-allowed policy and everthing stops until any
> identified regressions (in performance, functionally or stability) is fixed
> or the changes are all rolled back. This works really well if in addition
> organized pre-flight testing is done before calling a new version number.
> You simply cannot rely on ad-hock regression testing and reporting. Its got
> too much latency.
This would also mean "no development at all".
> * assign validation folks that the developer need to appease before changes
> are allowed to be accepted into the tree.
So... get me someone to test swsusp in each -rc and -mm
release... that would help. If you can't provide the manpower, why are
you whining?
Pavel
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