lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2007]   [Jan]   [24]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
From
SubjectRe: 2.6.18-stable release plans?
Date
On Jan 24, 2007, at 5:11 PM, Alan wrote:

>> I am going to assume that you are being facaetious, because it
>> would be the rarified pinnacle of
>> supreme arrogance to suggest that a cosmic ray event is a more
>> likely explanation than a bug in
>> the kernel.
>
> A one off non repeatable error experienced by two people out of the
> millions using it does fit the cosmic ray description quite well.
> That's
> not to say there isn't a bug, but you don't have enough data to even
> begin debugging it unless its rather more reproducable.

Exactly. Halting use of a version of the kernel based on a single
incident provides no insight to the source of the problem. It could
be anything...

--
Mark Rustad, MRustad@mac.com


-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2007-01-25 01:37    [W:0.064 / U:0.220 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site