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    SubjectRe: stable? quality assurance?
    El Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:51:42 +0200
    Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de> escribió:


    >
    > One reason for a demand for me is best expressed by this question: Does
    > the kernel developer community want to encourage that a group of advanced
    > Linux users - but mostly non-developers - compile their own vanilla or
    > valnilla near kernels, provide wider testing and report a bug now and
    > then?
    >
    > I can live with either answer. If not, I just will be much more reluctant
    > to try out new kernels.

    I for one stopped booting into -rc kernels.
    The fact that still have to patch my kernels with a *one* liner
    since 2.6.29 kernel [1] does not give me confidence on the "test
    report/bisect and it will be fixed" promise some have made in this
    threath

    [1] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13362

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