Re: Linux 2.6.21

[Stephen Clark <Stephen.Clark@seclark.us>]

Jeff Garzik wrote:

> IMO, the closer you look, the more warts you find.  Before you starting 
> doing your work with kernel regressions, no one was really tracking it. 
>  I bet you have helped cut down on the regressions, but I have no good 
> way to quantify my gut feeling.
>
> Additional comments on developers and fixing regressions:
>
> * Sometimes seeing a long list, peoples' eyes glaze over.  Its just 
> human nature.  A long list also gives us no idea of scale, or severity. 
>  I bet a weekly "top 10 bugs and regressions" email would help focus 
> developer attention.
>
> * To be effective, lists, either long or top-10, must be pruned if you 
> get a sense that only one user is affected.  [With oopses and BUGs as a 
> clear exception,] many problems benefit from at least two users 
> reporting a bug.
>
> * It gets a bit tiresome to field the large number of driver bug reports 
> that eventually turn out to be related to broken interrupt handling 
> somehow.  I think we developers need to get better at showing users how 
> to isolate driver vs. PCI/ACPI/core bugs.  Maybe drivers need to start 
> introducing interrupt delivery tests into their probe code.  Overall, 
> broken interrupt handling manifests in several ways, most of which 
> initially appear symptomatic of a broken driver.
>
> 	Jeff
>
>
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>  
Jeff,

If hardware worked in the previous version of the kernel can't users expect
the same hardware to work in this kernel?

Steve

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