Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964786AbXAXXdF (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jan 2007 18:33:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964812AbXAXXdE (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jan 2007 18:33:04 -0500 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.239]:26752 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964786AbXAXXdB (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jan 2007 18:33:01 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:message-id:cc:content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; b=V82vX0eZgE7MNamuKL0E1ebGKFQhhKxP6X09jhmuPcbHWjtSl6BT+HFfVIuc2dxHDrMZubRoUWCMstpkJZ2eOvXVArhEvMD3mtcSEdbIeIDG8nyG7L+K7zDKD/FOICzR/leiFk0GBE/IEVJULjh4EYTA6ErCt5Mo9dp+BRdPrLA= In-Reply-To: <20070124231153.6bc04063@localhost.localdomain> References: <4238B011-A417-41DE-8998-01BAAA484486@gmail.com> <999038.34946.qm@web52908.mail.yahoo.com> <20070124231153.6bc04063@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <1C9991E6-04F3-493D-9236-D24E95BB609F@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Rankin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Mark Rustad Subject: Re: 2.6.18-stable release plans? Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 17:32:57 -0600 To: Alan X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 980 Lines: 27 On Jan 24, 2007, at 5:11 PM, Alan wrote: >> I am going to assume that you are being facaetious, because it >> would be the rarified pinnacle of >> supreme arrogance to suggest that a cosmic ray event is a more >> likely explanation than a bug in >> the kernel. > > A one off non repeatable error experienced by two people out of the > millions using it does fit the cosmic ray description quite well. > That's > not to say there isn't a bug, but you don't have enough data to even > begin debugging it unless its rather more reproducable. Exactly. Halting use of a version of the kernel based on a single incident provides no insight to the source of the problem. It could be anything... -- Mark Rustad, MRustad@mac.com - 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/