[Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] Recruitment (Reviewers, Testers, Maintainers, Hobbyists)

Steven Rostedt rostedt at goodmis.org
Wed Jul 8 18:49:28 UTC 2015


On Wed, 8 Jul 2015 07:43:25 -0400
Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
 
> In order to track this well, you need data from users.  And therein
> lies one of the problems.  The majority of users don't use kernel.org
> kernels.  They use distro kernels.  The distros have data and tools to
> help track bugs and regressions, but upstream is somewhat loathe to
> look at anything that starts with b and ends with zilla.  Why?
> Because the data coming from users is often utterly junk.  You get a
> kernel splat and a "I don't know why this happened."  And frankly, I
> don't expect them to know why it happened either.  Particularly when
> you have subsystems that are using WARN_ON as a fixme comment and
> sprinkling them all over the damn place.
> 

Just a note. I hate the use of WARN_ON()s in this case. I bitch quite
loudly when I stumble across them (and I do often), because my ktest
scripts I use to test my own patches will fail if a WARN_ON() is
triggered.

At least if my test boxes have the hardware that does this, it wont
last long, as I'm pretty good at bitching ;-)

-- Steve


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