Re:UMN CS&E Statement on Linux Kernel Research
by Denvercoder9 on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @06:46PM
(#26896373)
There were more than three buggy commits, at least one of which is from this month
Re:UMN CS&E Statement on Linux Kernel Research
by kapp_in_life on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @06:57PM
(#26896444)
Other than the three in question no others were intentionally buggy. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]...
Best to spend time auditing every commit in the kernel for bugs rather than grandstanding over the commits from one university's members.
Re:UMN CS&E Statement on Linux Kernel Research
by Denvercoder9 on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @07:18PM
(#26896590)
They admit newer commits are part of a research effort and were sent with the intent to get feedback, but they didn't actually disclose any of that in the patch description [1]. Furthermore, lots of these patches are at best useless and at worst actively introduce bugs.
It's famously hard to distinguish malice from incompetence, but I don't think assuming bad faith is out of line here.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/YH%2FfM%2FTsbmcZzwnX@kroah...
Re:UMN CS&E Statement on Linux Kernel Research
by thu2111 on Thursday April 22, 2021 @07:12AM
(#26901389)
How do you know? These people already attempted to manipulate the kernel maintainers repeatedly, even after being caught. Nothing they claim about their own work can be trusted.
Re:UMN CS&E Statement on Linux Kernel Research
by kapp_in_life on Saturday April 24, 2021 @01:46AM
(#26922558)
"These people" being every student/faculty member at the University of Minnesota for the past few years?
This seems like a gross overreaction to three commits that didn't even make it into mainline. Especially when done for commits years before the "research" was done. But I suppose nobody can miss a chance to let loose a little outrage