From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: david.lang@digitalinsight.com (David Lang)
Cc: martin@cendio.se (Martin Persson), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.16-pre1
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 16:55:17 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E168P2L-0005fW-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.40.0111260616340.25678-100000@dlang.diginsite.com> from "David Lang" at Nov 26, 2001 06:26:20 AM
> so all complaints about how the VM change should have waited until 2.5/2.6
> ignore the fact that the existing VM system was broken.
Not paticularly. The original VM was fixable enough to branch 2.5, then
put the new VM in 2.5 and backport it without shipping two releases that
100% didnt actually work.
> more, don't gripe about the stable kernels not being perfect. It doesn't
> matter how many -rc kernels there are if most people wait until -final
> before doing their testing.
Thats why vendor kernels are generally a good idea for production setups.
Most vendors kernel trees have been beaten solidly for days with stress
testing and coverage test tools before they get put out
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-26 16:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 103+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-24 18:39 Marcelo Tosatti
2001-11-24 18:40 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-11-24 20:36 ` Phil Sorber
2001-11-24 19:44 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-11-24 21:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-11-24 21:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-11-24 22:04 ` François Cami
2001-11-26 0:49 ` Horst von Brand
2001-11-26 0:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-11-26 17:50 ` Alan Cox
2001-11-26 18:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-11-26 0:51 ` David Weinehall
2001-11-26 0:53 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-11-25 1:56 ` Patrick McFarland
2001-11-25 2:12 ` Patrick McFarland
2001-11-25 2:34 ` war
2001-11-25 2:41 ` Patrick McFarland
2001-11-25 3:05 ` Mohammad A. Haque
2001-11-25 21:55 ` Patrick McFarland
2001-11-26 12:06 ` Martin Persson
2001-11-26 14:26 ` David Lang
2001-11-26 16:55 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2001-11-26 16:58 ` Dominik Kubla
2001-11-26 15:38 ` M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
2001-11-26 18:12 ` J Sloan
2001-11-25 4:10 ` J Sloan
2001-11-25 21:58 ` Patrick McFarland
2001-11-25 22:57 ` J Sloan
2001-11-25 23:11 ` Patrick McFarland
2001-11-26 0:26 ` Patrick McFarland
2001-11-26 0:31 ` Patrick McFarland
2001-11-26 0:39 ` CaT
2001-11-25 4:23 ` Victor Yodaiken
2001-11-25 3:04 ` John Alvord
2001-11-26 18:13 ` Alan Cox
2001-11-26 18:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-11-24 20:58 ` Ryan Cumming
2001-11-24 22:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-11-24 22:35 ` kernel.org maintenance Ahmed Masud
2001-11-24 22:56 ` Linux 2.4.16-pre1 Mohammad A. Haque
2001-11-24 21:09 ` Marc A. Ohmann
2001-11-24 19:54 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-11-24 21:13 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2001-11-24 23:32 ` F.H. Bulthuis
2001-11-24 23:37 ` Rik van Riel
2001-11-24 23:47 ` F.H. Bulthuis
2001-11-25 13:34 ` Dominik Kubla
2001-11-25 14:39 ` Florian Weimer
2001-11-25 14:51 ` Russell King
2001-11-25 14:58 ` Florian Weimer
2001-11-25 15:06 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-25 15:14 ` Bruce Harada
2001-11-25 21:44 ` Teodor Iacob
2001-11-25 21:24 ` Thiago Rondon
2001-11-25 21:51 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2001-11-25 14:15 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2001-11-25 18:07 ` Tobias Ringstrom
2001-11-25 18:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-11-25 19:27 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-11-25 22:07 ` Patrick McFarland
2001-11-25 22:13 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2001-11-25 22:18 ` Patrick McFarland
2001-11-25 22:26 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2001-11-25 22:31 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2001-11-26 1:16 ` Mohammad A. Haque
2001-11-26 1:33 ` Patrick McFarland
2001-11-26 2:45 ` Mohammad A. Haque
2001-11-26 2:50 ` Horst von Brand
2001-11-27 0:47 ` Patrick McFarland
2001-11-27 1:01 ` Rik van Riel
2001-11-27 1:04 ` Patrick McFarland
2001-11-27 1:02 ` Andre Hedrick
2001-11-26 10:44 ` Rik van Riel
2001-11-26 6:57 ` Martin Eriksson
2001-11-25 22:28 ` François Cami
2001-11-25 22:36 ` Patrick McFarland
2001-11-25 22:40 ` Patrick McFarland
2001-11-26 0:20 ` Andrew Pimlott
2001-11-26 0:56 ` Patrick McFarland
2001-11-26 1:16 ` Phil Oester
2001-12-04 20:28 ` The Doctor What
2001-12-04 20:51 ` Rik van Riel
2001-11-25 23:53 ` [RFC] 2.5/2.6/2.7 transition [was Re: Linux 2.4.16-pre1] Mike Fedyk
2001-11-26 3:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-11-26 5:33 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-11-26 10:59 ` Rik van Riel
2001-11-26 14:58 ` jlnance
2001-11-26 18:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-11-26 12:41 ` Horst von Brand
2001-11-26 19:35 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-26 17:44 ` Rob Landley
2001-11-26 21:08 ` Alan Cox
2001-11-26 21:42 ` Rob Landley
2001-11-26 23:52 ` Rob Landley
2001-11-27 3:40 ` Johan Kullstam
2001-11-26 8:13 ` John Alvord
2001-11-25 19:16 ` Linux 2.4.16-pre1 Stephan von Krawczynski
2001-11-26 17:07 ` vda
2001-11-26 16:36 ` Charles Marslett
2001-11-27 4:30 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-11-27 8:59 ` Adrian Bunk
2001-11-24 21:56 Ricardo Galli
2001-11-25 12:09 Fred Bulthuis
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