linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.26-rc9: Reported regressions from 2.6.25

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Message-Id: <200807062304.07443.rjw@sisk.pl>
Date:	Sun, 6 Jul 2008 23:04:06 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Natalie Protasevich <protasnb@...il.com>,
	Kernel Testers List <kernel-testers@...r.kernel.org>,
	Maximilian Engelhardt <maxi@...monizer.de>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
	Domenico Andreoli <cavokz@...il.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.26-rc9: Reported regressions from 2.6.25

On Sunday, 6 of July 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 08:02:45PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Sunday, 6 of July 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 07:05:49PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Also, in the next couple of days I'll be closing the bugs the reporters of
> > > > which have been totally unresponsive.
> > > >...
> > > 
> > > If no action by us gets combined with automated weekly emails then
> > > no responses to the latter is not an unexpected event.
> > > 
> > > Such a submitter might be perfectly responsive to actual work on a bug 
> > > while really pissed off by getting the bug closed.
> > > 
> > > Look e.g. at #10865 that had a 1 month gap in submitter responses,
> > > but the actual problem is that noone of us ever bothered to look at
> > > this Oops...
> > > 
> > > I just did a run through all open 2.6.26-rc regressions, and I did not 
> > > find a single one where we seem to be waiting for some time for an 
> > > answer of the submitter. [1]
> > 
> > The following are my candidates:
> > 
> > 10629
> 
> Bug-Entry       : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10629
> Subject         : 2.6.26-rc1-$sha1: RIP __d_lookup+0x8c/0x160
> Submitter       : Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
> Date            : 2008-05-05 09:59 (63 days old)
> References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/5/28
> Handled-By      : Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> 
> See below at #10815.
> 
> 
> > 10786
> 
> Bug-Entry       : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10786
> Subject         : parisc: 64bit SMP does not boot on J5600
> Submitter       : Domenico Andreoli <cavokz@...il.com>
> Date            : 2008-05-22 16:14 (46 days old)
> References      : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121147328028081&w=4
> 
> 
> Submitter sent bug report, it seems no kernel developer ever bothered
> to answer.
> 
> The unresponsive side is not the submitter.

The report is 46 days old and the reporter has been sent a request to confirm
the presence of the problem every week.  Since he hasn't responded to any
of those requests, I assume we're not going to hear from him.  Thus, it's not
useful to track this any more.

Thanks,
Rafael
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