Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755212AbXFVLsv (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 07:48:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752722AbXFVLsm (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 07:48:42 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:46532 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752425AbXFVLsm (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 07:48:42 -0400 Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:54:28 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: "Ni@m" Cc: "Michal Piotrowski" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [1/2] 2.6.22-rc5: known regressions with patches v2 Message-ID: <20070622125428.28934ee0@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: References: <467AA8CA.2020206@googlemail.com> <6bffcb0e0706220427p203de10epeaa6e97d3f63886d@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.8; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1028 Lines: 26 On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:39:50 +0300 "Ni@m" wrote: > > We have patches for "very high non-preempt latency in > > context_struct_compute_av()" and "list_add corruption. prev->next > > should be next (f7d28794), but was f0df8ed4 (prev=f0df8ed4) Kernel Bug > > at lib/list_debug.c:33", but both are too intrusive. > > > > Anyway, those bugs are not regressions. > The question was "why linux kernel release should have some bugs that > would be fixed fixed in future?" Because those bug fixes are intrusive so will potentially cause more other bugs that will need fixing - so make the kernel a worse not a better one in the short term. > Let's wait and publish kernel w/o known bugs. That would be a bit like waiting for a Debian release and never happen. Alan - 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/