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

[Paul Mackerras]

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.
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