Re: RFC: starting a kernel-testers group for newbies

Paul Mackerras
2008-05-02T02:09:14Z

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. :)

Paul.