Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> writes: > Paul Rudin <paul.nos...@rudin.co.uk>: > >> Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> writes: >>> The feeling of powerlessness can be crushing when you depend on a >>> third-party component that is broken with no fix in sight. >> >> Presumably it depends on whether you have the source for the third >> party component... > > Just having such an experience. The linux kernel has a critical bug in a > major distribution (who shall be left unnamed here) that has been fixed > in a later kernel version. > > Thanks to linux being free software, I managed to pin down the root > cause after more than a month of debugging. I sent a bug report to the > linux vendor and attached a tiny patch. The vendor has graciously agreed > to consider releasing an update in the summer (we are in the process of > verifying the fix). > > The problem was first detected in December. A semi-reliable reproduction > was discovered in early February. The root cause and proposed fix was > identified mid-March. A vendor fix will likely come out by the end of > June. > > That's a long time to be without a product to sell. >
But you do have the option of building a kernel incorporating your fix and using that. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
