[Bug 263555] Re: [intrepid] 2.6.27 e1000e driver places Intel ICH8 and ICH9 gigE chipsets at risk

[Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen]

And because, after they learned about the problem, they failed to
communicate effectively and never removed the cd-image.

This has never happened before, and obviously there was no policy for this
situation. Which automatically means that some developpers turn into 'its
your fault'-mode and be less supportive of the community members who have
bricked their hardware. It turned into a blame game.

There were more "it's an alpha .. you knew what you were getting it to "
expressions than any compassion. Worse, appearantly its easier to type "it's
an alpha ..  off course it's going to break your hardware .. and you test on
your own risk" .. 10 times .. than to put a warning up. At least: it was
said at least 10 times before the warning was up.

That speaks volumes about priority. And the image is still available and
linked to from many places that do not contain the warning.

The mistake was just an oopsie .. the aftermath, how it was being dealt
with, (and still is) .. a PR horror.

2008/10/2 Lorenzo Zolfanelli <lorenzo_zolfa at yahoo.it>

> On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 7:46 PM, vjohn <vnibs119 at yahoo.com.br> wrote:
>
>
> > So, the Intel haven't opened the code of your hardware? So, how it's
> > happen?
> >
>
> It's happen because it isn't a stable kernel release, and because linux is
> developed by humans, and they might make mistakes. And I think the linux
> testing team was to small to reveal this bug.


Apologetic.

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> [intrepid] 2.6.27 e1000e driver places Intel ICH8 and ICH9 gigE chipsets at
> risk
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/263555
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[intrepid] 2.6.27 e1000e driver places Intel ICH8 and ICH9 gigE chipsets at risk
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