Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:33:14 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.25-rc7-git2: Reported regressions from 2.6.24 |
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* Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:
> But that was one year ago when we had only half as many regressions > per release as they do now, with 2.6.25 we had a peak of 66 pending > regressions...
we have twice as many commits, and we have better test coverage. I get the impression that user trust is coming back as well: regressions are being reported sooner and more persistently - because we are handling them in a more structured and more dependable way. We also seem to have more users of latest -git.
so it _appears_ to be an increase in bugginess but i believe it's an increase of activity and it's all good IMO, we close 90% of the regressions within a week or two, and most of the regressions are for obscure cases.
I had 2.6.25 running on most of my boxes from -rc1 on without any unprovoked crash. (provoked bugs were another matter) Bisection became more practical and more widespread as well. And i periodically find bugs that came from ancient kernels so we are fixing bugs faster than we put them in i think. I didnt have that feeling in the .18-.19 kernels.
also, now that the kerneloops.org client is in Fedora 9 by default, we'll start to have really objective long-term statistics about how our users react to the bugs we put into the kernel.
Ingo
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