On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 03:14:46PM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> The stats look very similar to last week; Fedora released a 2.6.25.9 based
> kernel upgrade, which led to a new sighting (at rank 12): the rt25xx wireless
> driver is calling flush_workqueue() with a NULL parameter in some cases.
> There has been a lot of thrash about the last report with regard to inclusion of wireless.git
> into the Fedora kernel rpms. As an observer I can say that it's both a blessing and a bog.
> It's a blessing in that this allows bugs to show up early before wireless.git hits mainline
> (as an example: this is the third or fourth fedora rpm upgrade in a row that showed new and exciting
> oopses/warnings due to rt25xx... as a result of very active development). It's a bog in that
> it may expose users to not-quite-ready code. So far it seems the Fedora kernel maintainers are happy
> enough with the overall balance that they continue the practice.
I actually think we need to scale things back a notch wrt pushing
wireless.git bits to users of released distros. The recent disaster
in wireless caused a shitstorm in bugzilla that we never even saw
in rawhide. A clear sign that we're pushing things too fast to users.
It's great that we're getting this stuff tested, but at the same time,
it doesn't give a great impression, and makes users reluctant to always
apply the latest updates if the last time around they have to deal with
this kind of fallout.
Dave
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