Messages in this thread | | | From | Greg Lindahl <> | Subject | Re: The stability crisis | Date | Tue, 29 Jun 1999 18:50:11 -0400 (EDT) |
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> I'd be glad to maintain a list of known bugs in the current kernel > versions, however I'm not sure it's a wise idea for me to voulenteer > becuase I don't know very much about the linux kernel's internals. For > example, I don't think I would be able to tell whether two oopses are the > same bug. > > I think one of the kernel developers (Alan Cox?) rejected bugzilla for the > kernel. Is a bug database going to be integrated into BitKeeper?
You're right that any human short of a kernel developer isn't going to do a perfect job keeping a bug&oops list. But anything which lightens the load of the bug-fixer is going to help. The bug database isn't really the hard part; the hard part is getting good quality oopses and/or good quality test programs which show the problem.
Most of the people complaining about 2.2's stability right now don't have outstanding oopses and bug reports, just a bunch of crashes. Odds are most of the oopses and bugs have gotten dropped on the floor, or never got sent in...
-- greg
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