On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 10:56:01PM +0100, Christian Kujau wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> There are a number of process things we _could_ do. Like
>> - have bugfix-only kernel releases
>
> Adrian Bunk does (did?) this with 2.6.16.x, although it always seemed to me
> like an unrewarded one man show. AFAIK not even the big distros are begging
> for bugfix-only versions, as they too want to have (sell) new features.
> Mission critical systems might want to require such versions, but I guess
> they're using heavily customized trees anyway.
And congratulations to him for that. We almost entirely dropped 2.6.16,
but there's a regression some time since then that makes large MMAPed
files a major pain (specifically the dcc database clean takes about 5
minutes on 2.6.16 and about 12 hours on 2.6.20 or 2.6.23 series kernels)
But we keep putting off writing a small testcase that can repeat the
issue so we can bisect it - because it's working fine with 2.6.16 on
that machine.
Bron.
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