Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: too much untested code in new kernels | Date | Thu, 2 Jan 1997 19:24:53 +0000 (GMT) |
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> The watchdog driver has not been tested in this manner. In fact, > drivers/char/pcwd.c has not even compiled since 2.1.15! This is not a > subtle CARD_REV configuration-dependent bug, and it's not a case of some > other kernel interface changing and this driver needing to catch up. It > is an outright mismatched open brace in the middle of pcwatchdog_init!
I've got the current pcwatchdog driver and its waiting to be fixed. The version you have did compile at one point but looks like it got crunched during a patching session after testing.
> So the results is that I'm not going to run 2.1.18 or any later kernel > on my machine for several weeks.
You shouldn't be running 2.1.x on machines where you worry about them being reliable.
> Please, code authors, test your patches before you send them to Linus.
People do.
Alan
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