Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:54:28 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [1/2] 2.6.22-rc5: known regressions with patches v2 |
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On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:39:50 +0300 "Ni@m" <niam.niam@gmail.com> wrote:
> > We have patches for "very high non-preempt latency in > > context_struct_compute_av()" and "list_add corruption. prev->next > > should be next (f7d28794), but was f0df8ed4 (prev=f0df8ed4) Kernel Bug > > at lib/list_debug.c:33", but both are too intrusive. > > > > Anyway, those bugs are not regressions. > The question was "why linux kernel release should have some bugs that > would be fixed fixed in future?"
Because those bug fixes are intrusive so will potentially cause more other bugs that will need fixing - so make the kernel a worse not a better one in the short term.
> Let's wait and publish kernel w/o known bugs.
That would be a bit like waiting for a Debian release and never happen.
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