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DateTue, 13 Jul 2010 13:11:12 +0200
FromAlejandro Riveira Fernández <>
SubjectRe: stable? quality assurance?
El Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:51:42 +0200
Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de> escribió:


>
> One reason for a demand for me is best expressed by this question: Does
> the kernel developer community want to encourage that a group of advanced
> Linux users - but mostly non-developers - compile their own vanilla or
> valnilla near kernels, provide wider testing and report a bug now and
> then?
>
> I can live with either answer. If not, I just will be much more reluctant
> to try out new kernels.

I for one stopped booting into -rc kernels.
The fact that still have to patch my kernels with a *one* liner
since 2.6.29 kernel [1] does not give me confidence on the "test
report/bisect and it will be fixed" promise some have made in this
threath

[1] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13362

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