From: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: A proposal; making 2.6.20 a bugfix only version.
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 00:22:52 +0300
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Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > The problem is not just simple bugs that surface, it's deeper than that.
> > Deep structural problems is what plagues 2.6.
> >
> > Only a focused model may deal with such problems.
>
> can you at least provide a list of such structural problems?
> In fact, why don't you collect them and mail them out (bi)weekly... that
> may already do wonders.
> Look at what Adrian is doing with the regressions; although the response
> isn't 100% people DO pay attention to it.... so maybe if you post a
> "structural problems list" people will actually start working on
> things.. (and of course you can help too ;)

Ok, things like OOM, scheduling, and block-io.

net looks ok, although I would suggest a redesign for 3.0.


Thanks!

--
Al

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