On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:44:54 +0100 Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > A single kernel release seems sufficient. It gives the maintainers of such > > code time to hear about the breakage and time to fix it. > > Users don't report warnings generally. They won't even see modprobe > warnings or anything in dmesg. Short of using their sound card to scream > "Next release you are screwed" they won't notice (and if you the sound > card trick they'll think they got rooted....) > I once made the mistake of putting a "please tell [EMAIL PROTECTED]" printk in 3c59x.c. My inbox nearly died. Then there's that damned "PCI bus hidden behind transparent bus" printk which I've actually removed from -mm because so many people keep reporting it and we don't do anything about it. All it takes is a couple of people to report the problem to the maintainer over a few-weeks period. It doesn't seem unreasonable to expect this to happen. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
