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Survey: Linux kernel qualitySurvey: Linux kernel qualityPosted Jul 10, 2006 9:19 UTC (Mon) by job (guest, #670)Parent article: Survey: Linux kernel quality
That over half of the end users taking this survey has even encountered a kernel bug is a bit alarming.
I've also had stability issues with some of the releases, which aren't really any identified bugs so I can't put them in here.
On my desktop machine my USB flash reader hasn't been working reliably since I switched from devfs to udev, only sometimes does the device node even exist. It may be a problem with Gentoo rather than udev, I haven't had time to look into it yet.
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Survey: Linux kernel quality Posted Jul 10, 2006 12:07 UTC (Mon) by arjan (subscriber, #36785) [Link] well there is also the element of selective audience.. people who did encounter a kernel bug are more likely to fill in this questionair since they have a more vested interest in the topic...
Survey: Linux kernel quality Posted Jul 10, 2006 14:50 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] Also, I haven't encountered *any* bugs in the heavily-tested core kernel: everything I've seen has been either- on relatively obscure arches (ARM, MIPS, SPARC64), or - in relatively-new features (e.g. initramfs), or - in drivers for specific hardware
The heavily-tested does-it-basically-work-on-common-hardware stuff seems to be cracked: it's just that everyone has *some* piece of obscure hardware or other, and they might get bitten by bugs in it...
Survey: Linux kernel quality Posted Jul 10, 2006 15:49 UTC (Mon) by tomsi (subscriber, #2306) [Link] I filled out one bug in the survey, because of misssing/error in IDE driver.
This was fixed in a later version of the kernel (rc-? at the time).
To behonest, that isn't eally a bug, just new hardware not supported yet. I think that for many, that is the issue - new hardware not supported yet.
Survey: Linux kernel quality Posted Jul 10, 2006 16:33 UTC (Mon) by thoffman (subscriber, #3063) [Link] The only kernel related problems that have really bothered me in the last couple of years are:
1. Firewire is flaky. Sometimes works, sometimes not. It has been this way since 2.4 or earlier. After reporting bugs a few times I've chosen the "suffer in silence" option and am replacing all my firewire hardware with USB 2.0.
2. On some oddball hardware (Tyan Dual-Slot-1 Pentium-III mb) the PCI IRQ routing is broken for kernels > 2.6.1x or so... didn't get as far as tracking down the details, just enough to know that Fedora Core 5's kernel will boot but can't find any PCI devices, while Fedora Core 4 works perfectly. The machine is a server so I don't care enough to investigate further :-(
3. Incompatibilities between changing APIs for wireless drivers vs. the userspace stuff... the binary "madwifi" driver works great with NetworkManager in FC4 but stopped working in FC5, this is apparantly a known bug which the Fedora team doesn't care about, luckily it works perfectly in Ubuntu, which was one of many reasons I switched distros :-)
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