From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932569AbXC1VdQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:33:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753148AbXC1VdQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:33:16 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:53048 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753157AbXC1VdP (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:33:15 -0400 Message-ID: <460ADF15.4060803@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:33:09 -0400 From: Chuck Ebbert Organization: Red Hat User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: Linus Torvalds , Jeff Garzik , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, LKML Subject: Re: [git patches] libata fixes References: <20070328073219.GA26024@havoc.gtf.org> <460A1A3D.6050501@garzik.org> <20070328141539.353203a1.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20070328141539.353203a1.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: > > There is another metric to look at, too: the number of fixes which are > going into 2.6.x.y. If that fix count is high, and if those fixes fix bugs > which were not present in 2.6.x-1 then this is an indication that something > is wrong - many regressions are sneaking through the -rc process. > > And I haven't run the numbers, but I get the impression that 2.6.20.x has > an unusually large number of fixes in it. That could be because people are getting better at actually fixing bugs in the previous release. :)