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I find it interesting someone posted a patch to the KERNEL with a comment of "doesnt always work?" It would seem prudent to invest a bit more time to understan
by spydum 12y ago
I find it interesting someone posted a patch to the KERNEL with a comment of "doesnt always work?"
It would seem prudent to invest a bit more time to understand why a particular thing doesn't work, for such a critical bit of code (I'm not implying I know that this is the cause or related to these new found bugs, but the article mentions it, so I'm just a little surprised).
- hga 12y agoFollowing the links, the full comment text is: /* On Xen the line below does not always work. Needs investigating! */ So this is in theory a lower priority issue for the mainline kernel. Especially since it apparently hasn't caused problems for ~ 8-9 years during which Xen and Linux have been thoroughly put to the test (e.g. Amazon AWS). Could be a "tearing out your hair" desperate sort of thing where you cast around for any possible cause....
- cbsmith 12y ago> It would seem prudent to invest a bit more time to understand why a particular thing doesn't work, for such a critical bit of code (I'm not implying I know that this is the cause or related to these new found bugs, but the article mentions it, so I'm just a little surprised). It would indeed. That's no reason not to post the patch though. Welcome to the imperfect world of software development.