Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262660AbVCKKTp (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Mar 2005 05:19:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263244AbVCKKTp (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Mar 2005 05:19:45 -0500 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:53993 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262660AbVCKKTj (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Mar 2005 05:19:39 -0500 Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 11:13:49 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Lee Revell Cc: Greg KH , Neil Brown , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Chris Wright , torvalds@osdl.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [RFC] -stable, how it's going to work. Message-ID: <20050311101349.GA30252@elf.ucw.cz> 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> <1110479120.12805.82.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1110479120.12805.82.camel@mindpipe> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1455 Lines: 32 On Čt 10-03-05 13:25:19, Lee Revell wrote: > 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". No, I do not think we want to extend it that far. Latency regression is more of "oh, who cares" issue ;-). Pavel -- People were complaining that M$ turns users into beta-testers... ...jr ghea gurz vagb qrirybcref, naq gurl frrz gb yvxr vg gung jnl! - 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/