Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 09:07:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 09:07:23 -0500 Received: from tmr-02.dsl.thebiz.net ([216.238.38.204]:15365 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 09:07:22 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: gatekeeper.tmr.com!davidsen From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen) Newsgroups: mail.linux-kernel Subject: Re: lkml, bugme.osdl.org? Date: 3 Dec 2002 14:13:33 GMT Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY Message-ID: References: <200212030724.gB37O4DL001318@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20021203121521.GB30431@suse.de> X-Trace: gatekeeper.tmr.com 1038924813 5563 192.168.12.62 (3 Dec 2002 14:13:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@tmr.com Originator: davidsen@gatekeeper.tmr.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1101 Lines: 19 In article <20021203121521.GB30431@suse.de>, Dave Jones wrote: | "xxx doesn't work in 2.5.47", then Rusty's module rewrite happened, | and the tester didn't (or couldn't) see if it got fixed in subsequent | kernels. I'll send out pings to such reports when they get to something | like 5 kernels old. If the problem then doesn't get re-ACKed, I'll | close it. Any objections? Since you are doing the work, you should set your own policy. I might suggest that if we revert the module stuff to something working in fewer than five versions you might ping then, and you might wait to drop stuff of the "xxx fails in 2.5.47 as a module" until modules work again or we officially go to a monolythic kernel. -- bill davidsen CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. - 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/