From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755141AbXDZVej (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:34:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755142AbXDZVej (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:34:39 -0400 Received: from calculon.skynet.ie ([193.1.99.88]:46065 "EHLO calculon.skynet.ie" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755141AbXDZVei (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:34:38 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:34:36 +0100 To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Krzysztof Halasa , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.21 Message-ID: <20070426213435.GA10048@skynet.ie> References: <20070426040806.GJ3468@stusta.de> <20070426125802.GL3468@stusta.de> <20070426165950.GO3468@stusta.de> <20070426184516.GV3468@stusta.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070426184516.GV3468@stusta.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: mel@skynet.ie (Mel Gorman) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On (26/04/07 20:45), Adrian Bunk didst pronounce: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 08:37:14PM +0200, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > >... > > With KNOWN_PROBLEMS information, sysadmins can decide if they can > > safely upgrade to .0 or if they have to wait for .123. > >... > > Listing regressions like the following will most likely be zero help for > them when deciding whether to upgrade now or later (and BTW, the latter > might imply running a kernel with known security issues): > > Subject : acpi_pm clocksource loses time on x86-64 > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/17/143 > Submitter : Mikael Pettersson > Handled-By : John Stultz > Len Brown > Status : problem is being debugged > On the other hand when I was responsible for a bug, it was a great help to see this sort of mail. Not only as it reminded I was responsible for a screw-up but when I sent a fix out, these mails let me know it was being picked up and ensured it made it to mainline. -- Mel Gorman Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab