From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764345AbYEAQku (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2008 12:40:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1763951AbYEAQkg (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2008 12:40:36 -0400 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:40310 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763777AbYEAQkf (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2008 12:40:35 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , davem@davemloft.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jirislaby@gmail.com Subject: Re: Slow DOWN, please!!! In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:52:44 PDT." <4818EA2C.2040507@zytor.com> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <20080429.190352.137408408.davem@davemloft.net> <200804302136.58005.rjw@sisk.pl> <20080430131537.1f7a0914.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4818EA2C.2040507@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1209659981_3191P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 12:39:41 -0400 Message-ID: <4190.1209659981@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --==_Exmh_1209659981_3191P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:52:44 PDT, "H. Peter Anvin" said: > This fragmentation is largely intentional, of course -- everyone can > pick a risk level appropriate for them -- but it does mean: > > a) The lag for a patch to ride through the pipeline is pretty long. > b) The section of people who are going to use the more aggressive trees > for "real work" testing is going to be small. And another problem is that often, it's hard to get good "real work" coverage over the whole tree. I just discovered an apparent borkage somewhere in the networking/wireless area that seems to have gotten into Linus's tree somewhere between 24-rc8 and 24-final, just because I haven't beaten on my wireless card in the last few weeks, so I didn't notice a regression in 'ip link show' related to the rfkill switch... --==_Exmh_1209659981_3191P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFIGfJNcC3lWbTT17ARAowXAKCjNkuAAtOT0qXfXZr0WFo3Dkh0zQCdHH/a 5mATrAX2tHU/vyuzdkRcUW4= =VqiI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1209659981_3191P--