Networking change causes __REGRESSION_

Networking change causes REGRESSION

Posted Oct 29, 2008 1:29 UTC (Wed) by brianomahoney (subscriber, #6206)
In reply to: Networking change causes distribution headaches by rfunk
Parent article: Networking change causes distribution headaches

I, for one am getting _very_fed-up_ with people who dont seem to
understand that breaking something that was working is a very bad thing. I
completely agree with Linus that these REGRESSIONS are to be avoided. and
fixed ASAP.

At the least they are very irritating and usually time-consuming, and
there are all too many these days, in the kernel eg this, e1000e and
userland eg latest Firefox/Seamonkey breaking non CUPS printing.

While it is true that newbies and should not be using alpha, beta stuff it
is true that fewer and fewer corner-cases are being tested before shipping
the newist-latest ... ops!

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Networking change causes __REGRESSION__

Posted Oct 29, 2008 4:02 UTC (Wed) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

who are you upset at?

the kernel developers did fix it quickly after it was reported.

it's impossible to test against all hardware as there is nobody in the world that has one of everything to test against (especially when you consider that firmware updates can radicaly change the behavior as well)