From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964977AbVLUXX5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Dec 2005 18:23:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964975AbVLUXX4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Dec 2005 18:23:56 -0500 Received: from stat9.steeleye.com ([209.192.50.41]:7312 "EHLO hancock.sc.steeleye.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964970AbVLUXXz (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Dec 2005 18:23:55 -0500 Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] SCSI bug fixes for 2.6.15-rc6 From: James Bottomley To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton , SCSI Mailing List , Linux Kernel In-Reply-To: References: <1135205667.3533.79.camel@mulgrave> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 17:23:43 -0600 Message-Id: <1135207423.3533.88.camel@mulgrave> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 15:09 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Hopefully these are the final two bug fixes before 2.6.15 (hint, hurry > > up!). > > Heh. That's a new strategy. Not "ok, we're now as bug-clean as we can be", > but instead the "please please release soon, so that we won't have time to > fix anything else" ;) Well practically, we're never bug free. What happens is that as the tree stabilises, the arrival rate of the critical bugs increases fairly exponentially. I measure this interval to be about 6 days now, so if you release a kernel in the next six days I won't have to run around like a mad thing trying to delay the kernel so I can QA and submit the bug fix, whatever it is. Of course, if you want to wait for all the critical bug fixes, there'll be one in six days ... then twelve days after that ... then twenty four ... James