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SubjectRe: RFD: Kernel release numbering
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> said:
> On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Horst von Brand wrote:
> > [I'm pulling bk daily, and have it mixed with the ipw tree too, so I'm just
> > the kind of tester you are looking for... haven't seen any of the
> > showstopper bugs everybody is talking about, or I'd have screamed.]

> Yeah, I wish everybody was like that. Sadly, it seems to be pretty rare to
> have people do weekly builds, much less daily. Daily builds is the holy
> grail for me, if just a small percentage of people did that, we'd be
> really well off.. Right not it's not even a "percentage", it's a very much
> self-selected small group of people, usually with what ends up actually
> being fairly similar high-end PC hardware.

I also fool around (not daily, but often) with a SPARC64. Ironing out some
trouble with that beast before screaming.

> Now, I haven't actually gotten any complaints about 2.6.11 (apart from
> "gcc4 still has problems" with fairly trivial solutions), so maybe the
> whole cycle really worked out well this time, and I happened to choose a
> really bad time to bring up this discussion. Or maybe this discussion
> scared away people, and I just need to give it another week or two ;)

Haven't looked at gcc4 recently (crashed on boot when I tried it). Worth
another round...
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