Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753239Ab3GNUbI (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Jul 2013 16:31:08 -0400 Received: from mail-pd0-f175.google.com ([209.85.192.175]:50654 "EHLO mail-pd0-f175.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752790Ab3GNUbG (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Jul 2013 16:31:06 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20130714052441.GA9042@roeck-us.net> References: <20130712173150.GA5534@roeck-us.net> <20130712195051.GB32054@1wt.eu> <20130713062223.GA15155@kroah.com> <20130713063607.GI32054@1wt.eu> <20130713064801.GA1305@kroah.com> <20130713114211.GA3112@thunk.org> <20130713182717.GA16637@kroah.com> <20130714022219.GC3112@thunk.org> <20130714035128.GA10697@kroah.com> <20130714052441.GA9042@roeck-us.net> Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 22:31:04 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: ifMt2NQnXR7uQQWIU1_b9DDAbQU Message-ID: Subject: Re: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Guenter Roeck Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , "Theodore Ts'o" , Willy Tarreau , Linus Torvalds , Dave Jones , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , stable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1637 Lines: 35 On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 7:24 AM, Guenter Roeck wrote: >> You are confusing the words "real" and "critical" perhaps. I, and other > > A typical classification of bugs might be > critical: mission critical, no workaround, must be fixed prior to > customer release > severe (high): related to core functionality, must fix, but not > necessarily in first release. > moderate (medium): Bugs that do not affect any critical user > functionality; typically has workaround > minor (low): Bugs that do not interfere with core functionality > and are just annoyances that may or may not ever be fixed > cosmetic: misspellings > > Such classifications are widely used in the industry. The term "affecting users" > might apply to all of those, and even a cosmetic bug is "real". And typically there's a distinction between severity (how bad is it), and priority (how soon it should be fixed), wich are not always linearly correlated. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- 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/