Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964904AbVJaX67 (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Oct 2005 18:58:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964906AbVJaX67 (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Oct 2005 18:58:59 -0500 Received: from scrub.xs4all.nl ([194.109.195.176]:58288 "EHLO scrub.xs4all.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964896AbVJaX66 (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Oct 2005 18:58:58 -0500 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 00:58:36 +0100 (CET) From: Roman Zippel X-X-Sender: roman@scrub.home To: Andi Kleen cc: Andrew Morton , Russell King , torvalds@osdl.org, tony.luck@gmail.com, paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: New (now current development process) In-Reply-To: <200510310341.02897.ak@suse.de> Message-ID: References: <4d8e3fd30510291026x611aa715pc1a153e706e70bc2@mail.gmail.com> <20051031001647.GK2846@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20051030172247.743d77fa.akpm@osdl.org> <200510310341.02897.ak@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2872 Lines: 54 Hi, On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Andi Kleen wrote: > I agree regressions are a problem and need to be addressed, but handling all > non regressions on a non trivial platforms is just impossible IMHO... Here is a different kind of non trivial regression on a common platform: $ ll -S /boot/ | grep ... -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1518317 2005-11-01 00:38 vmlinuz-2.6.14 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1506432 2005-08-30 00:36 vmlinuz-2.6.13 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1451154 2004-12-26 16:54 vmlinuz-2.6.10 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1432032 2005-06-26 03:50 vmlinuz-2.6.12 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1413888 2004-06-21 18:33 vmlinuz-2.6.7 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1394801 2004-05-17 22:14 vmlinuz-2.6.5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1390233 2004-05-18 01:54 vmlinuz-2.6.6 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1315050 2003-09-12 22:10 vmlinuz-2.6.0-test5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1280189 2003-06-06 01:00 vmlinuz-2.5.70 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 918663 2002-11-11 22:42 vmlinuz-2.5.47 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 887758 2004-02-19 01:24 vmlinuz-2.4.25 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 883868 2003-12-20 21:02 vmlinuz-2.4.23 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 875858 2003-08-26 00:39 vmlinuz-2.4.22 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 859547 2003-02-06 22:35 vmlinuz-2.5.59 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 855092 2003-06-14 02:29 vmlinuz-2.4.21 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 703585 2002-12-19 11:58 vmlinuz-2.4.20 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 700359 2002-08-03 19:57 vmlinuz-2.4.19 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 690106 2001-01-07 23:38 vmlinuz-2.4.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 678080 2002-03-02 20:48 vmlinuz-2.4.18 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 641409 2001-02-23 02:53 vmlinuz-2.4.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 640950 2001-01-31 01:30 vmlinuz-2.4.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 635339 2001-12-22 03:16 vmlinuz-2.4.17 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 632647 2001-12-04 00:37 vmlinuz-2.4.16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 629787 2001-11-07 22:00 vmlinuz-2.4.14 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 629240 2001-08-11 18:16 vmlinuz-2.4.8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 628556 2001-07-21 17:06 vmlinuz-2.4.7 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 628386 2001-09-24 00:02 vmlinuz-2.4.10 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 627597 2001-10-20 15:14 vmlinuz-2.4.12 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 626634 2001-07-11 20:22 vmlinuz-2.4.6 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 623325 2001-05-28 01:57 vmlinuz-2.4.5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 622619 2001-05-01 16:20 vmlinuz-2.4.4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 611493 2001-04-02 20:44 vmlinuz-2.4.3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 497523 2001-03-30 18:56 vmlinuz-2.2.19 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 495553 2001-03-25 17:24 vmlinuz-2.2.18 I'm a bit scared of this development and I'm afraid that merging all the new features at high speed has become more important than code quality... bye, Roman - 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/