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

Josh Boyer
2008-05-02T03:10:34Z

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