Re: [bisect] NFS regression breaks X

[Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>]

Trond Myklebust wrote:
> 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.

I had expected that many of these issues would be caught by the OSDL 
test harness.  I learned only yesterday that it was no longer available, 
so I am making an effort to broaden my personal test regime.
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