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-What is a "regression" and what is the "no regressions rule"?
+What is a "regression" and what is the "no regressions" rule?
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It's a regression if some application or practical use case running fine with
one Linux kernel works worse or not at all with a newer version compiled using a
-similar configuration. The "no regressions rule" forbids this to take place; if
+similar configuration. The "no regressions" rule forbids this to take place; if
it happens by accident, developers that caused it are expected to quickly fix
the issue.
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-What is the goal of the "no regressions rule"?
+What is the goal of the "no regressions" rule?
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Users should feel safe when updating kernel versions and not have to worry
turned out to be wrong when they assumed a particular situation was warranting
an exception.
-Who ensures the "no regressions" is actually followed?
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+Who ensures the "no regressions" rule is actually followed?
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The subsystem maintainers should take care of that, which are watched and
supported by the tree maintainers -- e.g. Linus Torvalds for mainline and
Check out Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-regressions.rst, it covers a lot
of other aspects you want might want to be aware of:
- * the purpose of the "no regressions rule"
+ * the purpose of the "no regressions" rule
* what issues actually qualify as regression