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There were more than three buggy commits, at least one of which is from this month
by Denvercoder9 5y ago
There were more than three buggy commits, at least one of which is from this month
- kapp_in_life 5y agoOther than the three in question no others were intentionally buggy. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YIBMKSovJumS79SR@pendragon.ideasonboard.com/ https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YIBMKSovJumS79SR@pendragon.idea... Best to spend time auditing every commit in the kernel for bugs rather than grandstanding over the commits from one university's members.
- Denvercoder9 5y agoThey admit newer commits are part of a research effort and were sent with the intent to get feedback, but they didn't actually disclose any of that in the patch description [1]. Furthermore, lots of these patches are at best useless and at worst actively introduce bugs. It's famously hard to distinguish malice from incompetence, but I don't think assuming bad faith is out of line here. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/YH%2FfM%2FTsbmcZzwnX@kroah.com/ https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/YH%2FfM%2FTsbmcZzwnX@kroah...
- thu2111 5y agoHow do you know? These people already attempted to manipulate the kernel maintainers repeatedly, even after being caught. Nothing they claim about their own work can be trusted.
- kapp_in_life 5y ago"These people" being every student/faculty member at the University of Minnesota for the past few years?