On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 19:04:29 +0530, debian developer said: > On 6/2/07, Andrew Morton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > It's quite common for experienced kernel developers to ack completely broken > > patches. > > common!! > > is'nt that a bit too ... Lots of code looks totally reasonable to a kernel coder, except it doesn't actually work when run, or doesn't actually build for a common architecture. Let's face it - if I hit a bug on my Dell Latitude in a -mm kernel, our current depth of testers means that I'm probably the only person who's likely to test the fix before it goes uptream to Linus as a "probably works".
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