The stable tree
The stable tree
Posted Aug 21, 2014 6:25 UTC (Thu) by dlang (guest, #313)In reply to: The stable tree by neilbrown
Parent article: The stable tree
> Testing -stable patches is definitely important. Sometimes a "trivial" fix is actually wrong and makes things worse.
What's worse, usually the breakage doesn't happen on the tester's equipment, so the "trivial" fix works for them, but breaks someone else's hardware.
When it's driver changes, this can be really hard to identify.