On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 14:51 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 08 Nov 2006 23:22:11 +0100
> Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > - A while back, akpm made some statements about being worried that the
> > > 2.6 kernel is getting buggier
> > > (http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6069363.html).
> >
> > and at this years Kernel Summit actual data
>
> Not true. 70% of surveyed users had hit a new kernel bug.
70% of surveyed users hit ANY kernel bug. Not "new bugs"
Including "my new wizzbang hardware doesn't work" and "I'll try
something new, oh looky a 4 year old bug" and "this new feature isn't
quite mature yet now that I try it".
One of the things that happened was during early 2.6 udev broke left and
right ABI wise. We've gotten a lot better at that, and that's the kind
of bug that hits a really wide audience.
Statistics can be misleading ... bigtime.
83% of the people also said things were not getting less reliable in
2.6.
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