From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1031357AbXD2URU (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:17:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1031359AbXD2URU (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:17:20 -0400 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:32774 "EHLO mailhub.stusta.mhn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1031357AbXD2URT (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:17:19 -0400 Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 22:17:29 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Diego Calleja Cc: Andi Kleen , Linus Torvalds , Chuck Ebbert , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.21 Message-ID: <20070429201729.GQ3468@stusta.de> References: <20070428195320.GZ3468@stusta.de> <20070428202701.GA30343@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20070428224904.GE3468@stusta.de> <20070429173500.GA30248@one.firstfloor.org> <20070429180909.GA30604@one.firstfloor.org> <20070429214007.9ea12e96.diegocg@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070429214007.9ea12e96.diegocg@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 09:40:07PM +0200, Diego Calleja wrote: >... > So unless someone is willing to write such tool (which I doubt, since it > doesn't looks easy), all this discussion seems pointless, and we should > stick with this http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions page > which is showing to be quite useful :) This list currently contains 29 known regressions. Someone has to manually add them. Someone has to manually track the status of all of them. Someone has to manually group related regressions (e.g. in the same subsystem) together. The kernel Bugzilla currently contains 1600 open bugs. Maintaining a regression list by hand was really a pain when during 2.6.21-rc we had 36 known regressions. Any approach that does not involve some kind of tracker with some kind of database simply doesn't scale. Bugzilla might not be perfect, but it works and it's better than doing it by hand. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed