Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262802AbUJ1HOT (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Oct 2004 03:14:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262815AbUJ1HOT (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Oct 2004 03:14:19 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:43141 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262802AbUJ1HOL (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Oct 2004 03:14:11 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 00:13:44 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: michael@optusnet.com.au Cc: John Richard Moser , "Marcos D. Marado Torres" , Ed Tomlinson , Massimo Cetra , "'Chuck Ebbert'" <76306.1226@compuserve.com>, "'Bill Davidsen'" , "'linux-kernel'" Subject: Re: My thoughts on the "new development model" Message-ID: <20041028071344.GJ12934@holomorphy.com> References: <00c201c4bb4c$56d1b8b0$e60a0a0a@guendalin> <200410261719.56474.edt@aei.ca> <417F315A.9060906@comcast.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 831 Lines: 18 On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 04:46:58PM +1000, michael@optusnet.com.au wrote: > That's NOT the same as bug free software. For a start, there's no such > thing. For another, many bugs are perfectly acceptable in a production > environment as long as they're not impacting. (The linux kernel is a > very large piece of work. Few installations would use even 20% of the > total kernel functionality). I'd expect vastly less than 1%, starting from the arch count, and then making some conservative guesses about drivers. Drivers probably actually take it down to far, far less than 1%. -- wli - 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/