From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756479AbZBTLbb (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Feb 2009 06:31:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753345AbZBTLbX (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Feb 2009 06:31:23 -0500 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:35525 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752775AbZBTLbW (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Feb 2009 06:31:22 -0500 Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:31:07 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Sitsofe Wheeler Cc: Rusty Russell , Frederic Weisbecker , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: What made this bug report better? (was Re: Poking ieee80211_default_rc_algo causes kernel lockups) Message-ID: <20090220113107.GK28581@elte.hu> References: <200902162040.44178.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <20090216175907.GA4582@nowhere> <200902171007.28257.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <20090220102705.GA2884@silver.sucs.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090220102705.GA2884@silver.sucs.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:07:27AM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote: > > > > Thanks, done, and I'll send to Linus and -stable immediately. > > I'm curious - only two days after I reposted this the problem > [1] it appears to have been resolved. When I posted it the > first time [2] I only received one reply (privately) and that > was from Greg wondering why I had only sent the email to him > (which was an unfortunate problem and down to how I was trying > to send LKML mails at the time). > > What happened this time that made things succesful? Was the > original mail too big? Did it not make it to the list? > > [1] http://groups.google.com/group/fa.linux.kernel/browse_frm/thread/2a816ca521d72494/bd607c7e143def6f?#bd607c7e143def6f > [2] http://groups.google.com/group/fa.linux.kernel/browse_frm/thread/d4a6ce26360613fa/b362792a2debced6?#b362792a2debced6 It does not seem to have made it to everyone - it's not in my lkml folder for example. Sometimes vger eats emails. Filing a bugzilla for reproducible bugs makes sense - especially if you see that no action has been taken by anyone. But note that even with expanded Cc:s and a properly working list it needed Frederic's excellent function-graph trace and analysis. A crash in the wireless code rarely gets tracked back to a core kernel module support bug, and it would have taken quite some time for someone to make that connection. Ingo