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Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:12:33 +0200
From: Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>
To: Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: Why is 2.6.12.2 less stable on my laptop than 2.6.10?
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
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2005/7/18, Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>:
> On Friday 15 July 2005 16:14, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Mark Gross wrote:
> > > What would be wrong in expecting the folks making the driver changes
> > > have some story on how they are validating there changes don't break
> > > existing working hardware?  I could probly be accomplished in open
> > > source with subsystem testing volenteers.
> >
> > Are you volunteering ?
> 
> I am not volunteering.  That last sentence was meant to say "It could
> probubly..."
> 
> I'm just poking at a process change that would include a more formal
> validation / testing phase as part of getting change into the stable tree.  I
> don't have any silver bullets.

I totaly agree with you, but the real problem is *how* to do that.
Do you have any suggestion ?

-- 
Paolo