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Linux is not Minix or HURDLinux is not Minix or HURDPosted Mar 3, 2009 7:20 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252)In reply to: Ubuntu now offering mainline kernel builds by jwb Parent article: Ubuntu now offering mainline kernel builds
For example, in my recent experience where I was asked to try the kernel.org vanilla kernel, there was absolutely no delta whatsoever between the Ubuntu version and the kernel.org version of the driver in question. So there was no possibility that the newer version even fixed my problem. Driver can easily trigger bug in stock kernel and if this bug will be fixed problem will disappear. For this reason it was long policy of kernel guys to reject any and all bug-reports with nVidia-tainted kernel, for example. I see nothing wrong with asking guys to test vanilla kernel - packages should just make it easier... What I _am_ worried about is the ability to track the number of defects in the Ubuntu kernel will be degraded, because devs will ask for spurious tests of other revisions and then set bugs to Incomplete. Or they can just add one more item to submission form: "what happend with Linus stock kernel"... This way submitter will know what to do from the start...
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