Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760029AbXFQOss (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jun 2007 10:48:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752015AbXFQOsl (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jun 2007 10:48:41 -0400 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:37516 "EHLO mailhub.stusta.mhn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751564AbXFQOsk (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jun 2007 10:48:40 -0400 Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 16:48:55 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Oleg Verych Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Michal Piotrowski , Andrew Morton , Stefan Richter , Linus Torvalds , Andi Kleen , Diego Calleja , Chuck Ebbert , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] (Re: regression tracking (Re: Linux 2.6.21)) Message-ID: <20070617144855.GX3588@stusta.de> References: <6bffcb0e0706170322j3c51868fn6189bfd7d3bcac1@mail.gmail.com> <20070617114709.GD16016@flower.upol.cz> <200706171413.40890.rjw@sisk.pl> <20070617142430.GF16016@flower.upol.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070617142430.GF16016@flower.upol.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2224 Lines: 54 On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 04:24:30PM +0200, Oleg Verych wrote: > On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 02:13:39PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Sunday, 17 June 2007 13:47, Oleg Verych wrote: > [] > > > It's OK _only_ in case of unknown, hard to find *hardware* bugs. > > > > > > If you think it's "a good thing" for bad, untested by developer > > > code, then something is completely wrong. > > > > Oh, I've just fixed two purely software bugs pointed out by binary searching > > in the code that I'm sure has been tested, not only by its developers, but the > > bugs only showed up in my configuration (on one out of four test boxes). > > > > There are so many different kernel configurations possible that there's no way > > a developer can test them all. > > With current state of affairs it's not only hard for developers, but > and for users: <20070221220520.GA20659@artselect.com>, > <20070429230037.95120@gmx.net> Uwe has an attitude that made many people (including Linus himself) set their mail filters to deliver his emails directly to /dev/null. Parts of the contents of his emails were usable including usable regression reports - but the way he treats people simply disqualified him. > I'm trying to re-do some kbuild stuff, but i'm getting rather offensive > answers :( <1182020654.8176.398.camel@chaos> >... I'm not seeing anything in Thomas' email that could be considered offensive. He told you in a technical way why he disagrees with you. If you call this email "rather offensive", you should _really_ unsubscribe from lkml (or even any Debian mailing lists). And this is not meant against you, it's simply that for the standards of lkml there is nothing offensive in this email. 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/