Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264297AbTH2C2z (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2003 22:28:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264331AbTH2C2z (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2003 22:28:55 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:5307 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264297AbTH2C2y (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2003 22:28:54 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 19:32:15 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Bill Davidsen Cc: cswingle@iarc.uaf.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test4: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference Message-Id: <20030828193215.4f18c551.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20030828131019.69a9f3b9.akpm@osdl.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 698 Lines: 17 Bill Davidsen wrote: > > Let's not. If this goes in the Athlon users will get bad performance, > reliable operation, and no one will blame anything but the Athlon... If > it keeps oopsing hopefully people will complain and it will get fixed. Tough luck. It is not acceptable to have -test kernels oopsing all over the place. If anyone cares about the performance then they'll fix it for real. It's probably unmeasurable anyway. - 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/