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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Handled-By : John Stultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Len Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
