Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 12:53:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 12:53:44 -0500 Received: from web21306.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.129.60]:2473 "HELO web21306.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 12:53:43 -0500 Message-ID: <20030112180231.84483.qmail@web21306.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 10:02:31 -0800 (PST) From: David Truog Subject: Re: any chance of 2.6.0-test*? To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1003 Lines: 33 Alan Cox wrote: >> I've looked into this, and wow, it's not a simple fix :( >> >> But this is really the first it's been mentioned, I can't see holding up >> 2.6 for this. It's a 2.7 job at the earliest, unless someone wants to >> step up and do it right now... > >2.5.x crashes erratically and randomly under high tty/pty load. At the >moment I'm assuming this is the tty code. That means we can't decide not >to fix it since its already fatally broken. Is there a list of things broken and "homeless"? I have seen a number of people say (and do) fix things when they are specificaly pointed out as being broken. if a list doesn't exist, could linus or alan post one somewhere? like the LKML maintainers list backwards. just a thought David Truog - 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/