Re: Why is 2.6.12.2 less stable on my laptop than 2.6.10?

[Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>]

On Thursday 14 July 2005 19:09, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > You can't test everything this way, nor should you, but you can test
> > many things, and adding a bit of formal testing to the release
> > procedure wouldn't be a bad thing IMO.
>
> In the linux model that's left to the distributions. In fact doing it
> properly takes months. You wouldn't want to wait months for a new mainline
> kernel.
>
> Formal testing is not really compatible with "release early, release often"
>

This is true.  I think we are seeing the effects of releasing more often than 
we should be into a "stable" tree.  Early and Often make sence for developing 
new features, but should they be pushed into a stable release so often?

> You could do things like "run LTP first", but in practice LTP rarely finds
> bugs.
>
> -Andi

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--mgross
BTW: This may or may not be the opinion of my employer, more likely not.