Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262078AbVCCUnH (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:43:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262169AbVCCUky (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:40:54 -0500 Received: from inti.inf.utfsm.cl ([200.1.21.155]:17113 "EHLO inti.inf.utfsm.cl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262228AbVCCUhe (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:37:34 -0500 Message-Id: <200503032036.j23KaXEN005793@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> To: Linus Torvalds cc: Jeff Garzik , "David S. Miller" , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering In-Reply-To: Message from Linus Torvalds of "Thu, 03 Mar 2005 08:59:29 -0800." X-Mailer: MH-E 7.4.2; nmh 1.1; XEmacs 21.4 (patch 17) Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 17:36:33 -0300 From: Horst von Brand X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0b2 (inti.inf.utfsm.cl [200.1.21.155]); Thu, 03 Mar 2005 17:36:40 -0300 (CLST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1828 Lines: 34 Linus Torvalds said: > On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Horst von Brand wrote: > > [I'm pulling bk daily, and have it mixed with the ipw tree too, so I'm just > > the kind of tester you are looking for... haven't seen any of the > > showstopper bugs everybody is talking about, or I'd have screamed.] > Yeah, I wish everybody was like that. Sadly, it seems to be pretty rare to > have people do weekly builds, much less daily. Daily builds is the holy > grail for me, if just a small percentage of people did that, we'd be > really well off.. Right not it's not even a "percentage", it's a very much > self-selected small group of people, usually with what ends up actually > being fairly similar high-end PC hardware. I also fool around (not daily, but often) with a SPARC64. Ironing out some trouble with that beast before screaming. > Now, I haven't actually gotten any complaints about 2.6.11 (apart from > "gcc4 still has problems" with fairly trivial solutions), so maybe the > whole cycle really worked out well this time, and I happened to choose a > really bad time to bring up this discussion. Or maybe this discussion > scared away people, and I just need to give it another week or two ;) Haven't looked at gcc4 recently (crashed on boot when I tried it). Worth another round... -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - 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/