Kernel bugs: out of control? [LWN.net]

Kernel bugs: out of control?

Posted May 15, 2006 4:27 UTC (Mon) by ChristopheC (guest, #28570)
In reply to: Kernel bugs: out of control? by malor
Parent article: Kernel bugs: out of control?

I think it is unfair to say the kernel developer do not test their patches. However, they can only test them on the few combinations of hardware they have access to.

To discover the bugs, the kernel needs wide-spread testing. But few people are willing to test the development releases (-rc) - the problem has been mentioned countless times on lkml and here on lwn. So they have to release often toge tthe needed coverage. (This is a somewhat simplified explanation, of course)

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Kernel bugs: out of control?

Posted May 15, 2006 5:48 UTC (Mon) by malor (subscriber, #2973) [Link]

2.6.14 broke *traceroute*. Give me a break.

Kernel bugs: out of control?

Posted May 21, 2006 17:05 UTC (Sun) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Er, how often do you *run* traceroute? I don't run it so often myself that I'd notice immediately if it broke. It could easily be a week or so between runs...