From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765408AbYEAT2N (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2008 15:28:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759780AbYEAT15 (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2008 15:27:57 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:57872 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759693AbYEAT14 (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2008 15:27:56 -0400 Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 12:26:36 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Theodore Tso Cc: bunk@kernel.org, arjan@infradead.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, rjw@sisk.pl, davem@davemloft.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jirislaby@gmail.com, rostedt@goodmis.org Subject: Re: RFC: starting a kernel-testers group for newbies Message-Id: <20080501122636.152c80db.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20080501172434.GB17365@mit.edu> References: <20080429.190352.137408408.davem@davemloft.net> <200804302136.58005.rjw@sisk.pl> <20080430131537.1f7a0914.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080501003125.GM29330@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <20080430000338.50548884@infradead.org> <20080501113038.GW29330@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <20080430072013.7c3b30b1@infradead.org> <20080501132159.GC29330@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <20080501084919.8ac6dbdd.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080501172434.GB17365@mit.edu> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 1 May 2008 13:24:34 -0400 Theodore Tso wrote: > ... and maybe we can't solve hardware bugs. Many, many of these are regressions. If old-linux works on that hardware then new-linux can too. (still wants to know what we did 2-3 years ago which caused thousands of people to have to resort to using noapic and other apic-related boot option workarounds)