On 05/19/2013 10:47 AM, madbiologist wrote: > I too have been wondering how this was missed during pre-release testing > of Raring. Hopefully the testing of HDMI audio (according to the bug > description analog built-in audio is only broken on some machines) will > now become part of Ubuntu's standard testing procedures.
To answer for my own part in this: The regression went into the almost very latest kernel before the release, so when the bug was discovered (I sent a patch for it the 18th of April) it was very late - since new kernels require new images, new installation tests on various hardware and so on, pressing the big red panic button to redo all of that, is not to be taken lightly. It's also hard to predict the scale of a bug - it doesn't happen for all HDMI Audio cards, (I've never seen it on my own) so I didn't know how many would actually be hit by this. In this case, when I saw all the duplicates coming in, I first made sure this bug went into the release notes (with help from Andy Whitcroft), and later, I wrote a letter to the kernel team to highlight that many people were being hit, and asking if there was anything I could do to help speed the process up [1]. The only answer was [2]. On top of that we have just had a security bug which I believe is relatively severe (the perf privilege escalation), causing the regular updates to be delayed as a result. Looking back, is it a matter of bad luck that this bug still is not released into the -updates repository, or could the process of updating kernels be improved? If you have constructive feedback on how the kernel team's process of updating kernels could be improved, please contact the kernel team - they have a mailing list as well as weekly IRC meetings. [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2013-April/027938.html [2] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2013-April/027943.html -- David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd. https://launchpad.net/~diwic -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1169984 Title: 3.8.0-18 HDMI audio regression: Either oops or opening device fails with -ENODEV To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-desktop-tests/+bug/1169984/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
