On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 09:39:23PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 15:28 -0600, Russ Anderson wrote: > > > For some customers _any_ amount is significant, especially > > on large clustered systems where the amount is multiplied > > by tens or hundreds of thousands of nodes. > > > > You many not think wasting their cpu cycles is important, but they do. > > Then they should be running locally built kernels in order to ensure Why don't YOU run a locally built kernel? > that there's no problematic code running at all. Distribution kernels > will always contain code that some customers won't be interested in, and > some of that code will end up executing. We support multiple distros so if one does something the customer does not like/need we can steer them to other distros. > If you have specific bug reports, that would be helpful. But you're not > describing actual failure conditions or showing any willingness to > figure out what the underlying problem is. You can't fix your problem without creating problems for others to fix? -- Russ Anderson, Kernel and Performance Software Team Manager SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc rja@xxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
