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From: Matthew Garrett on 4 Feb 2010 15:50
On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 09:22:54PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> " Hey, -rc7 just hung on me after enabling this new .config option it
> offered for the radeon driver i am using, please add this to the list of
> regressions. "

If the same configuration options hang on both an old kernel and a new
kernel, how is that in any plausible way a regression? What's regressed?

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From: Matthew Garrett on 4 Feb 2010 16:20
On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 10:05:59PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> Regressions are not limited to 'same config' kernels, last i checked. If that
> has changed (or if i'm misunderstanding it) then it would be nice to hear a
> clarification about that from Linus.

If an option has *never* worked on a given configuration, then it's not
a regression. That's not a matter of taste, it's a matter of language.
We prioritise regressions because they mean that someone's previously
working configuration no longer works. Tying the word "regression" to
other bugs just to get someone to look at them faster is
counterproductive.

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