From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753165AbYEVOnp (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 May 2008 10:43:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751597AbYEVOnf (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 May 2008 10:43:35 -0400 Received: from smtp6.pp.htv.fi ([213.243.153.40]:50328 "EHLO smtp6.pp.htv.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751395AbYEVOne (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 May 2008 10:43:34 -0400 Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 17:41:14 +0300 From: Adrian Bunk To: Bosko Radivojevic Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Number of bugs - statistics Message-ID: <20080522144114.GC27301@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 02:28:17PM +0200, Bosko Radivojevic wrote: > Hi! Hi Bosko! > Is there any kind of analysis of number of (reported or resolved) bugs > through time in Linux kernel floating around? I'm trying to convince > my colleagues that newer kernel version does not mean more bugs than > the previous 'well tested' ones. We definitely have many regressions (something that previously worked does no longer work) in each kernel. > Any kind of (research) reports or papers that address this issue is > more than welcome. Any such reports or papers would anyway be flawed since we have no data one could use for doing serious statistics. > Thanks! > > Sincerely, > Bosko cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed