On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:

On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:43:49 -0700 Arjan van de Ven [off-list ref] wrote:

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I'll be writing a report with more details about this soon with more analysis and statistics
(I'll be looking at more detail around the top 25 issues, when they got introduced, when they got fixed etc)

Well OK.  But I don't think we can generalise from oops-causing bugs all
the way to all bugs.  Very few bugs actually cause oopses, and oopses tend
to be the thing which developers will zoom in on and pay attention to.

If we had metrics on "time goes backwards" or anything containing "ASUS",
things might be different.

Even oopses have pitfalls, like in 25-rcs where those WARN_ON TCP 
backtraces were due to three different bugs (there might be fourth one 
still remaining). ...kerneloops.org didn't even make difference between 
different WARN_ONs in a function though that would have helped only little 
in the case of 25-rc TCP because of different bugs causing failures in the 
same invariant.

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