Releasing with a known broken kernel

[Daniel T. Chen]

Alexander Skwar wrote:
> How? 6.06.2 will be released? Remember, in the worst case, 
> users cannot even boot, so updating after installation becomes

There will always be hardware that refuses to boot Ubuntu. There's not 
much that can be done about that.

> Ubuntu Devs know about the bugreports. It's their duty, to care about
> it. I made already enough noise on this list (in this thread and in the
> "ubuntu 6.06.1 released" thread).

Many of us [volunteer devs] don't have the resources to follow every 
single thread. Unfortunate but true.

> And thanks to your addition to the bugreport, they are "awake"
> now. Which is, of course, too late.
> 
> Yes, I am quite disappointed by the way this bug got handled.

I suggest you take the initiative and generate a patch against the 
current Dapper linux-source [and post it to kernel-team] so that our 
kernel lead can apply it.

Thanks,
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Daniel T. Chen            crimsun at ubuntu.com
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