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Linus Torvalds has given the Linux kernel development community a bit of a touch-up, after finding some contributions to Linux 4.18 complicated the kernel development process.
In his post announcing release candidate 2 of Linux kernel 4.18, Torvalds mentioned “some noticeable filesystem updates, particularly to cifs.”
“I'm going to point those out, because some of them probably shouldn't have been in rc2. They were ‘fixes’ not in the ‘regressions’ sense, but in the ‘missing features’ sense.”
Torvalds’ beef is that people have been adding new stuff to the kernel in release candidates and calling it a fix.
“So please, people, the ‘fixes’ during the rc series really should be things that are _regressions_. If it used to work, and it no longer does, then fixing that is a good and proper fix. Or if something oopses or has a security implication, then the fix for that is a real fix.”
“But if it's something that has never worked, even if it ‘fixes’ some behavior, then it's new development, and that should come in during the merge window. Just because you think it's a ‘fix’ doesn't mean that it really is one, at least in the ‘during the rc series’ sense.”
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @11:34PM (1 child)
Have you ever used Windows 10?
Every update, you have zero idea what garbage they're going to put in it, and they force you to update.
On Linux, you can pick what to update and when.
"This is why I switched to Windows" my ass.
(Score: 3, Touché) by janrinok on Tuesday June 26 2018, @07:18AM