From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933379AbYEBCJO (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2008 22:09:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754252AbYEBCI6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2008 22:08:58 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:37987 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751083AbYEBCI6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2008 22:08:58 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18458.30641.838156.434563@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 12:08:49 +1000 From: Paul Mackerras To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , davem@davemloft.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jirislaby@gmail.com, Steven Rostedt Subject: Re: RFC: starting a kernel-testers group for newbies In-Reply-To: <20080501132159.GC29330@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> References: <20080429.190352.137408408.davem@davemloft.net> <200804302136.58005.rjw@sisk.pl> <20080430131537.1f7a0914.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080501003125.GM29330@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <20080430000338.50548884@infradead.org> <20080501113038.GW29330@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <20080430072013.7c3b30b1@infradead.org> <20080501132159.GC29330@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.1.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.