Re: [stable] 2.6.17.[1-6] XFS Filesystem Corruption, Where is 2.6.17.7?

On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 04:26:54PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

OK, 2.6.17.7 is out, but still - is this suggestion worthwhile
considering for future -stable release engineering or just crap?

.7 took a bit longer than expected, due to some security bugs that
needed to be added to the queue, combined with the fact that both Chris
and I were busy with OLS stuff. Normally we both aren't travelling at
the same time, but right then, we were, so we couldn't respond as
quickly as it seems some people felt we should have.

Sorry about this, we'll try to do better next time.

The flipside to this is that those patches had been posted for around a
week before you released .7, and *no-one* caught this problem until
after the release.

The burden of testing shouldn't solely be on the -stable team.
Perhaps a -pre release at the time of review would be a good idea.
Just a roll-up of the proposed patches, to save testers having
to save and apply 30 patches seperately ?

Dave

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