linux-kernel - Re: [bisect] NFS regression breaks X

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Date:	Thu, 10 May 2007 09:36:44 -0400
From:	Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
Subject: Re: [bisect] NFS regression breaks X

Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 15:52 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> It's a bit rough that Jeff spent a large amount of time hunting down an
>> already-known bug.  That's normally my job :(
> 
> The bug was reported by Florin Iucha (on lkml!) on Saturday. It has only
> just been debugged, and I was in fact in the middle of marshalling the
> fixes.
> 
>> This five-week-old diff only ever appeared in 2.6.21-mm1, which was
>> released four days ago.  It was then whizzed into mainline.  We thus lost
>> five weeks public testing which would probably have saved Jeff his pain.
>>
>> What went wrong?
> 
> Probably my fault. I've had a couple of weeks of heavy travel due to
> various circumstances that were beyond my control, and so I had little
> time in which to test the stuff and push it out.
> 
> Another factor that is affecting us is the slow but gradual collapse of
> the OSDL NFSv4 regression testing effort.

I had expected that many of these issues would be caught by the OSDL 
test harness.  I learned only yesterday that it was no longer available, 
so I am making an effort to broaden my personal test regime.

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