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

[Andi Kleen]

> You can't test everything this way, nor should you, but you can test
> many things, and adding a bit of formal testing to the release
> procedure wouldn't be a bad thing IMO.

In the linux model that's left to the distributions. In fact doing it properly
takes months. You wouldn't want to wait months for a new mainline kernel.

Formal testing is not really compatible with "release early, release often" 

You could do things like "run LTP first", but in practice LTP rarely finds
bugs.

-Andi
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