From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760727AbXEJAKl (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 20:10:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759770AbXEJAKT (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 20:10:19 -0400 Received: from mx2.netapp.com ([216.240.18.37]:16289 "EHLO mx2.netapp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760602AbXEJAKQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 20:10:16 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: i="4.14,512,1170662400"; d="scan'208"; a="58592883:sNHT15048152" Subject: Re: [bisect] NFS regression breaks X From: Trond Myklebust To: Andrew Morton Cc: Jeff Garzik , Chuck Lever , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , NeilBrown , Adrian Bunk In-Reply-To: <20070509155228.d1b9d644.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <46423D62.2070200@garzik.org> <1178748206.6760.3.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> <20070509155228.d1b9d644.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Network Appliance Inc Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 20:10:13 -0400 Message-Id: <1178755813.6760.26.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 May 2007 00:10:28.0005 (UTC) FILETIME=[9D4BB550:01C79297] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 15:52 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > It's a bit rough that Jeff spent a large amount of time hunting down an > already-known bug. That's normally my job :( The bug was reported by Florin Iucha (on lkml!) on Saturday. It has only just been debugged, and I was in fact in the middle of marshalling the fixes. > This five-week-old diff only ever appeared in 2.6.21-mm1, which was > released four days ago. It was then whizzed into mainline. We thus lost > five weeks public testing which would probably have saved Jeff his pain. > > What went wrong? Probably my fault. I've had a couple of weeks of heavy travel due to various circumstances that were beyond my control, and so I had little time in which to test the stuff and push it out. Another factor that is affecting us is the slow but gradual collapse of the OSDL NFSv4 regression testing effort. Trond