Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262960AbVCJScS (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:32:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262956AbVCJSbf (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:31:35 -0500 Received: from viper.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.4]:25046 "HELO viper.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262921AbVCJSZW (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:25:22 -0500 Subject: Re: [RFC] -stable, how it's going to work. From: Lee Revell To: Greg KH Cc: Neil Brown , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Chris Wright , torvalds@osdl.org, Andrew Morton In-Reply-To: <20050310173144.GA17206@kroah.com> References: <20050309072833.GA18878@kroah.com> <16944.6867.858907.990990@cse.unsw.edu.au> <20050310164312.GC16126@kroah.com> <1110475644.12805.43.camel@mindpipe> <20050310173144.GA17206@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:25:19 -0500 Message-Id: <1110479120.12805.82.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1120 Lines: 27 On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 09:31 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:27:23PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 08:43 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > That, and a zillion other specific wordings that people suggested fall > > > under the: > > > or some "oh, that's not good" issue > > > rule. > > > > So just to be 100% clear, no sound with 2.6.N where the sound worked > > with 2.6.N-1 absolutely does qualify. Right? > > Hm, do you think that is a "good" thing to have happen?... OK, so it sounds like scheduling latency regressions also qualify. This could make a system that worked on 2.6.N-1 unusable on 2.6.N, and the fixes here (usually restoring a lockbreak) are almost always small and obvious. And users do report this, usualy in the form of "JACK was usable under foo kernel but I get xruns with the same config under bar kernel". Lee - 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/