Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758274AbYC1UeF (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:34:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755051AbYC1Udz (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:33:55 -0400 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:43574 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754951AbYC1Udy (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:33:54 -0400 Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:33:14 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Linus Torvalds , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Pawel Staszewski , Christoph Lameter , LKML , Andrew Morton , Natalie Protasevich Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc7-git2: Reported regressions from 2.6.24 Message-ID: <20080328203314.GC26555@elte.hu> References: <200803272353.51901.rjw@sisk.pl> <200803281710.44576.rjw@sisk.pl> <20080328173642.GG32200@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080328173642.GG32200@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1535 Lines: 34 * Adrian Bunk wrote: > But that was one year ago when we had only half as many regressions > per release as they do now, with 2.6.25 we had a peak of 66 pending > regressions... we have twice as many commits, and we have better test coverage. I get the impression that user trust is coming back as well: regressions are being reported sooner and more persistently - because we are handling them in a more structured and more dependable way. We also seem to have more users of latest -git. so it _appears_ to be an increase in bugginess but i believe it's an increase of activity and it's all good IMO, we close 90% of the regressions within a week or two, and most of the regressions are for obscure cases. I had 2.6.25 running on most of my boxes from -rc1 on without any unprovoked crash. (provoked bugs were another matter) Bisection became more practical and more widespread as well. And i periodically find bugs that came from ancient kernels so we are fixing bugs faster than we put them in i think. I didnt have that feeling in the .18-.19 kernels. also, now that the kerneloops.org client is in Fedora 9 by default, we'll start to have really objective long-term statistics about how our users react to the bugs we put into the kernel. Ingo -- 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/