Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: RFC: starting a kernel-testers group for newbies | From | Josh Boyer <> | Date | Thu, 01 May 2008 22:10:15 -0500 |
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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.
josh
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