Re: [Bug 10864] [regression][bisected] ~90,000 wakeups as of 2.6.26-rc3

Németh Márton
2008-06-15T08:54:54Z

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Németh Márton <nm127@freemail.hu> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I already mentioned at the bug report that 2.6.26-rc6 this is fixed.
>>
>> Maybe tell your robot to first check the latest activities in the bug
>> report since the last -rc release. What I want also to tell your robot
>> that it should mention what actions should be taken in case the bug
>> should be still listed or when the bug can be closed.
>
> i think the current regression tracking methods that Rafael uses work
> very well and i'd like to thank Rafael for those efforts - to me as a
> subsystem maintainer it is a _very_ useful thing.
>
> In this case there was no real harm from the "this bug is already fixed"
> condition - just an extra email. Real harm would only come from missed
> regressions or from incorrectly closed regressions - but those are not
> happening.
>
> note that there is no "robot" involved in changing the state of bugs -
> the real important work here is done by Rafael and checking whether a
> bug is still relevant is an inevitably manual work. The mails and
> reports are auto-generated but crawling discussions and determining the
> status of a regression is very hard to automate.

Sorry, I thought a robot missed my comments in the bug tracking system for
the second time:

1.
Comment was on 2008-06-06 13:27:16 ( http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10864#c3 )
The mail was coming: 7 Jun 2008 22:42:57 +0200 (CEST) ( http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/7/193 )

2.
Comment was on 2008-06-13 23:19:53 ( http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10864#c4 )
The mail was coming: 14 Jun 2008 22:12:04 +0200 (CEST) ( http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/14/160 )

Nevertheless the bug #10864 can be closed I think.

Regards,

Márton Németh