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From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.16.30-pre1
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 18:47:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1159051675.1097.194.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060923223348.GH5566@stusta.de>

On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 00:33 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> the main goals for 2.6.16 are:
> - no regressions
> - security fixes
> 
> And I did always say that things like adding new PCI IDs are
> considered 
> OK for 2.6.16. 

I think the point that people are trying to make is that adding new PCI
IDs carries an inherent risk of regression.  Unless you have access to
every device with that ID for regression testing it could be the
difference between a machine where one device doesn't work and a machine
that locks up hard.

Lee


  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-23 22:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-22 22:23 Linux 2.6.16.30-pre1 Adrian Bunk
2006-09-22 22:38 ` Greg KH
2006-09-22 22:47   ` Adrian Bunk
2006-09-22 23:09     ` Greg KH
2006-09-23  4:56       ` Willy Tarreau
2006-09-23 23:21         ` Adrian Bunk
2006-09-23 23:53           ` Willy Tarreau
2006-09-24  7:46             ` Sergey Vlasov
2006-09-24 18:16             ` Adrian Bunk
2006-09-24 19:46               ` Stefan Richter
2006-09-24 19:44                 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-09-24 20:02               ` Willy Tarreau
2006-09-25  1:01                 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-09-24 10:17           ` Pavel Machek
2006-09-25  1:23             ` Adrian Bunk
2006-09-25  8:15               ` Pavel Machek
2006-09-27  5:14               ` Greg KH
2006-09-23 20:49       ` Jean Delvare
2006-09-23 20:57         ` Lee Revell
2006-09-23 21:20           ` Jean Delvare
2006-09-23 22:47             ` Adrian Bunk
2006-09-23 22:33         ` Adrian Bunk
2006-09-23 22:47           ` Lee Revell [this message]
2006-09-23 22:58             ` Adrian Bunk
2006-09-23 22:12       ` Adrian Bunk
2006-09-24 10:12     ` Pavel Machek
2006-09-25  1:20       ` Adrian Bunk
2006-09-24 20:25 ` Grant Coady

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