Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 2 May 2008 14:09:39 +1000 | From | Paul Mackerras <> | Subject | Re: RFC: starting a kernel-testers group for newbies |
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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.
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