Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:00:09 -0400
From: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Subject: Re: My thoughts on the "new development model"
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Massimo Cetra <mcetra@navynet.it>
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On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 at 10:37:06 -0700 William Lee Irwin III wrote:

>>  "It works for me" doesn't cut it in the OS world.
>
> It's an existence proof spanning a wide swath of architectures. If
> you are not seeing similar results, send bugreports.

  I don't neeed to send in bug reports, there are plenty on l-k
right now:

  - LVM is currently broken in 2.6.9-mm1
  - the RTC and NMI code have a race condition between them
  - NFS mount won't accept a FQDN over 50 bytes (patch was
    sent and utterly ignored, then recently reposted)
  - cdrom driver thinks non-mt. rainier drives are capable


> Point releases are in fact updated and maintained. Those updates
> are given the name of the next point release.

  Are you saying people who encounter bugs in 2.6.9 should wait for
2.6.10?  ...and when they find bugs in _that_ release they should keep
waiting?  In other words, Zeno was right after all?


--Chuck Ebbert  26-Oct-04  17:23:57
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