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

Paul Mackerras
2008-05-02T04:10:00Z

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.