From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>,
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>,
Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [patch] scsi: revert "[SCSI] Get rid of scsi_cmnd->done"
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 21:01:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080108200143.GA23607@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0801080902460.3148@woody.linux-foundation.org>
* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> These things *are* fairly rare (most bugs by _far_ are of the trivial
> stupid kind), but some of those things can stay around for a long
> time, and it can take months of different people reporting similar
> problems until somebody finally puts two and two together and sees the
> pattern.
one common pattern i've noticed is bug dependency. In some areas we need
to fix a series of 2-3 increasingly less trivial bugs to get enough test
exposure, tester confidence and developer attention to trigger (and fix)
the _truly_ bad bugs.
That's why agressive regression elimination (and prevention) is so
important IMHO - trivial regressions can totally block testing of
certain areas of code, and with an agressive 90 days release schedule
every day counts.
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-08 20:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-02 16:25 [patch] scsi: revert "[SCSI] Get rid of scsi_cmnd->done" Ingo Molnar
2008-01-02 16:46 ` James Bottomley
2008-01-02 19:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-02 19:40 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-01-02 19:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-02 20:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-01-02 20:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-02 20:53 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-01-02 20:18 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-01-02 20:12 ` James Bottomley
2008-01-02 20:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-02 23:33 ` James Bottomley
2008-01-03 1:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-06 2:55 ` Peter Osterlund
2008-01-06 3:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-06 10:17 ` Peter Osterlund
2008-01-06 14:04 ` James Bottomley
2008-01-06 14:42 ` James Bottomley
2008-01-06 15:01 ` Peter Osterlund
2008-01-06 18:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-06 18:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-06 18:54 ` James Bottomley
2008-01-06 16:19 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-01-06 16:47 ` James Bottomley
2008-01-06 13:57 ` James Bottomley
2008-01-06 14:47 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-06 15:20 ` James Bottomley
2008-01-06 15:45 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-06 16:00 ` James Bottomley
2008-01-06 16:12 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-06 17:10 ` James Bottomley
2008-01-08 16:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-06 17:11 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-01-06 17:36 ` James Bottomley
2008-01-06 18:34 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-01-06 18:56 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-06 19:10 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-01-06 19:58 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-06 21:08 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-01-06 22:25 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-07 20:50 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-01-07 21:31 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-07 21:37 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-01-07 23:04 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-01-07 23:19 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-01-08 16:47 ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-08 17:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-08 20:01 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-01-09 4:01 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-01-09 4:10 ` Andrew Morton
2008-01-09 6:03 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-01-09 4:03 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-01-07 15:25 ` John Stoffel
2008-01-07 19:04 ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-07 19:59 ` John Stoffel
2008-01-06 17:29 ` Stefan Richter
2008-01-06 20:26 ` Ingo Molnar
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-01-06 13:55 Thomas Meyer
2008-01-06 16:56 ` Matthew Wilcox
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