Re: [Pan-users] Re: The "no-break-space" problem, aka "blank" posts, that shouldn't be

[walt]

On 12/11/2009 05:47 PM, Duncan wrote:
> walt posted on Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:11:03 -0800 as excerpted:
>
> > > Do you run git kernels also?
> >
> > Yes, I update from linus.git every morning right after updating from
> > Junio.
>
> Do you run the patch-window kernels too?  I don't.  I wait for at least
> rc1 first, and generally rc2, figuring the chances for data gobbling bugs
> (and for frustrating no-compiles) are at least reduced by then.  Of
> course the downside is that by the time I start testing, there's often a
> LOT of code between me and the bug, thus way more rounds of bisecting,
> assuming it bisects at all (this one's the first I've had serious trouble
> with in that regard, tho).

Yes I update every day, stubborn as a mule.  I'm lucky that I've never
suffered disk corruption, I suppose, but I *don't* use experimental
filesystems like ext4.  I leave that to the big kids :o)

My stubbornness paid off just three days ago when I bisected a zero-day
kernel bug that broke gdb -- the bug was fixed in less than 24 hours and
in Linus's tree on the third day (today).  Amazing.