Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

From: Christian Kujau
Date: Tue Nov 13 2007 - 15:01:32 EST


On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
I think that we're fairly good about working the regressions in
Adrian/Michal/Rafael's lists but once Linus releases 2.6.x we tend to let
the unsolved ones slide, and we don't pay as much attention to the
regressions which 2.6.x testers report.

Can't we wait until all regressions[0] are fixed before releasing a new 2.6.x? I'd consider regressions a *literal* show stopper, and with this policy they just have be fixed, nothing would "slide"...

my 2 cents,
Christian.

[0] preferably only reproducible regressions, with responsive reporters.
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