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Date:	Tue, 3 Jun 2014 20:03:16 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop@...world.com>
Cc:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, josh@...htriplett.org,
	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...nel.org,
	laijs@...fujitsu.com, dipankar@...ibm.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com,
	niv@...ibm.com, tglx@...utronix.de, peterz@...radead.org,
	dhowells@...hat.com, edumazet@...gle.com, dvhart@...ux.intel.com,
	fweisbec@...il.com, oleg@...hat.com, sbw@....edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] MAINTAINERS: Add "R:" designated-reviewers tag

On Wed, 4 Jun 2014 00:48:16 +0100
Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop@...world.com> wrote:

>  This is _often_ not like userspace programs where you can write a
> testsuite to exercise the corner cases.  Kernel problems can be
> tied up with intricate details of the hardware, or equally they
> might happen only for certain usage, and for those it might not be
> at all obvious what is "special" about the affected usage.

Very true. Most of the Tested-by: tags I give is for one of my older
boxes that triggers bugs that none of my other boxes do. Can't really
add a test case for that. If only I could insert my test box into the
git repository :-/

-- Steve

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