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SubjectRe: 2.6.15-rc7: known regressions
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On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 18:38 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Monday 02 January 2006 18:23, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
> > Would you veto against a section "known regressions" in the final 2.6.15
> > announcement listing this issue with a link to the Bugzilla bug?
>
> Yes for this case. The original was likely so fragile that it might
> break only with minor changes in the hardware configuration.
>
> In general listing known regressions is a good idea though.
>
> It might be a good idea to give them different priorities though - e.g.
> a broken BIOS with a missing workaround is less priority than
> a pure Linux bug.

I'm currently struggling with a probable case of broken BIOS without
workaround, is there a central repository of known simular problems? Is
there a way to pinpoint such problems to prevent people from tossing
these into bugzilla?

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