Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:14:47 -0400 | From | Stephen Clark <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.21 |
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Jeff Garzik wrote:
>IMO, the closer you look, the more warts you find. Before you starting >doing your work with kernel regressions, no one was really tracking it. > I bet you have helped cut down on the regressions, but I have no good >way to quantify my gut feeling. > >Additional comments on developers and fixing regressions: > >* Sometimes seeing a long list, peoples' eyes glaze over. Its just >human nature. A long list also gives us no idea of scale, or severity. > I bet a weekly "top 10 bugs and regressions" email would help focus >developer attention. > >* To be effective, lists, either long or top-10, must be pruned if you >get a sense that only one user is affected. [With oopses and BUGs as a >clear exception,] many problems benefit from at least two users >reporting a bug. > >* It gets a bit tiresome to field the large number of driver bug reports >that eventually turn out to be related to broken interrupt handling >somehow. I think we developers need to get better at showing users how >to isolate driver vs. PCI/ACPI/core bugs. Maybe drivers need to start >introducing interrupt delivery tests into their probe code. Overall, >broken interrupt handling manifests in several ways, most of which >initially appear symptomatic of a broken driver. > > Jeff > > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > > Jeff,
If hardware worked in the previous version of the kernel can't users expect the same hardware to work in this kernel?
Steve
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