Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751298AbWJHR7O (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Oct 2006 13:59:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751301AbWJHR7O (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Oct 2006 13:59:14 -0400 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:14863 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751298AbWJHR7N (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Oct 2006 13:59:13 -0400 Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 19:59:08 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Pekka Enberg , Trond Myklebust , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc1: known regressions (v2) Message-ID: <20061008175908.GG6755@stusta.de> References: <20061008045522.GG29474@stusta.de> <1160283948.10192.3.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <20061008063943.GB6755@stusta.de> <84144f020610080045s6d2d1b06o6fc78bfb8fbf4d77@mail.gmail.com> <20061008172859.GD6755@stusta.de> <20061008173445.GN30283@lug-owl.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061008173445.GN30283@lug-owl.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2212 Lines: 59 On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 07:34:46PM +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > On Sun, 2006-10-08 19:28:59 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 10:45:50AM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 01:05:48AM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > > >> In any case, what the fuck gives you the right to appoint yourself judge > > > >> and jury over kernel regressions? > > > > > > On 10/8/06, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > >I've given this right myself - everyone can always send any bug list he > > > >wants to linux-kernel. > > > > > > I don't see what the problem here is. As stated in the bug report, a > > > patch signed off by you broke something in the kernel which is not yet > > > fixed in -git. Aside from calling people "guilty", what Adrian is > > > doing is a service to us all. > > > > It seems the word "Guilty" was considered offensive by some people? > > I'd find it offensive, too, when I'd be called "guilty" because a > patch broke something that was buggy. Some people have no problem being called Didn't do anything, the scurvy lad. Ahoy! while other people consider the word "Guilty" quite offensive. All I can say is that my list is not meant in any was as an offence - bugs always happen when writing software, and the intention of my list is simply to summarize as much information as possible about known regressions. > Read the bug report: Seems it > was actually caused by a non-initialized variable introduced by a > patch to util-linux. It was the sum of two independent bugs, and one of them was a kernel bug. > > This wasn't my intention, and I've replaced it with "Caused-By". > > Made-visible-by :) > > MfG, JBG cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - 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/