Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 01:34:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 01:34:11 -0500 Received: from four.malevolentminds.com ([216.177.76.238]:10245 "EHLO four.malevolentminds.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 01:34:06 -0500 Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 06:34:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Khyron To: LKML - Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Coding style - a non-issue Message-ID: 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 In response to: > "it works/does not work for me" is not testing. Testing > is _actively_ trying to break things, _very_ preferably > by another person that wrote the code and to do it > in documentable and reproducible way. I don't see many > people doing it. from "Stanislav Meduna ", Alan Cox said: "If you want a high quality, tested supported kernel which has been through extensive QA then use kernel for a reputable vendor, or do the QA work yourself or with other people. We have kernel janitors, so why not kernel QA projects ? "However you'll need a lot of time, a lot of hardware and a lot of attention to procedure" But in his earlier e-mail, Stanislav Meduna said: "Evolution does not have the option to vote with its feet. The people do. While Linux is not much more stable than it was and goes through a painful stabilization cycle on every major release, Windows does go up with the general stability with every release. W2k were better than NT, XP are better than W2k. Windows (I mean the NT-branch) did never eat my filesystems. Bad combination of USB and devfs was able to do this in half an hour, and this was *VENDOR KERNEL* that did hopefully get more testing than that what is released to the general public. I surely cannot recommend using 2.4 to our customers." which seems to negate the point Alan was attempting to make. Just thought I'd set the record straight. NOTE: Emphasis mine. "Everyone's got a story to tell, and everyone's got some pain. And so do you. Do you think you are invisble? And everyone's got a story to sell, and everyone is strange. And so are you. Did you think you were invincible?" - "Invisible", Majik Alex - 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/