linux-kernel - Re: RFC: starting a kernel-testers group for newbies

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Message-ID: <18458.30641.838156.434563@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Date:	Fri, 2 May 2008 12:08:49 +1000
From:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
Cc:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, davem@...emloft.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jirislaby@...il.com,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: starting a kernel-testers group for newbies

Adrian Bunk writes:

> "Kernel oops while running kernbench and tbench on powerpc" took more 
> than 2 months to get resolved, and we ship 2.6.25 with this regression.

That was a very subtle bug that only showed up on one particular
powerpc machine.  I was not able to replicate it on any of the powerpc
machines I have here.  Nevertheless, we found it and we have a fix for
it.  I think that's an example of the process working. :)

Paul.
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