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Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 14:09:39 +1000 From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org> To: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...il.com> Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>, 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 Josh Boyer writes: > On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 12:08 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > > 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. :) > > Was it even a regression in the classical sense of the word? Seemed > more of a latent bug that was simply never triggered before. That's right. The bug has been there basically forever (i.e. since before 2.6.12-rc2 ;) and no-one has been able to trigger it reliably before. Paul. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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