Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754657AbXLIWvd (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Dec 2007 17:51:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752070AbXLIWv0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Dec 2007 17:51:26 -0500 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.191]:11846 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751939AbXLIWvZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Dec 2007 17:51:25 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=GVRS/0ksKI+gsynNv/Xy270/m/cLLN9crwU+U4SddG2fr0Px/p6IjQuZNufyabCmrUjCluNcM1EW6GsE9KGw1w84VxQQFx18przvD6uuTKt3xoGD/AQu61j9D6TrJ7ItxUt4biFt9dsOVwCeWkvLX+b8M5Bp6/I58KhrD2Gicwg= Message-ID: <2c0942db0712091451sb1bb421vd3149f23791361c7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 14:51:23 -0800 From: "Ray Lee" To: "Alan Cox" Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23 Cc: "Linus Torvalds" , "Tejun Heo" , "Andrew Morton" , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , LKML , "Ingo Molnar" In-Reply-To: <20071209220132.53268368@the-village.bc.nu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200712080340.49546.rjw@sisk.pl> <20071208015227.3a1c7fae.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <475B9270.6070902@gmail.com> <20071209134217.7ff02dd2@the-village.bc.nu> <20071209220132.53268368@the-village.bc.nu> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 3f142fd4409acc52 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 900 Lines: 20 On Dec 9, 2007 2:01 PM, Alan Cox wrote: > > Btw, Alan, that "math" is total and utter BULLSH*T, and you should know > > that. > > To blindly argue regressions are critical is sometimes (as in this case) > to argue that "this freeway is no longer compatible with a horse and > cart" means the freeway should be turned back into a dirt road. Honest question: If you allow regressions, then how does one guarantee forward progress? (If it were a finite set of systems, all within one group's control, then the answer is simple: count how many work. However, in this case we only have a statistical sampling available to us.) Ray -- 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/