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

[Josh Boyer]

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

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