Posted Oct 28, 2008 0:42 UTC (Tue) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: ECN by ncm
Parent article: Stable kernel 2.6.27.4
which 'They' are you referring to?
the 'They' who introduced and didn't find the bug followed the RFCs
the 'they' who are doing the ubuntu release need to balance the problems that this problem can cause with all the fixes that are in the 2.6.27 release (including the support for some very common wireless hardware)
you say that they should go with a 'well tested older release', but if they didn't do the testing of that older release is it really any better than the current release? or than going with the untested -stable release?
Posted Oct 28, 2008 2:06 UTC (Tue) by ncm (subscriber, #165)
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Please read the posting you are replying to. 'They' is who I said it was: "whoever coded the routers".
Considering the details of the patch, the additional testing needed to verify a patched kernel is minimal -- certainly less than what was needed to verify the cheesy procps workaround with the present kernel.