Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2regression in 2.6.21)

From: Michal Piotrowski
Date: Mon Aug 27 2007 - 13:03:29 EST


Daniel Walker pisze:
> On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 17:26 +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote:
>> On 27/08/07, Daniel Walker <dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 13:38 +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote:
>>>> On 27/08/07, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> [..]
>>>>> I'm not sure that we need one, really. Any bugs in a stable release can be
>>>>> handled via email and/or bugzilla as we are presently doing?
>>>>>
>>>>> What I'm concerned about is that regressions which we didn't fix are just
>>>>> getting lost. Is anyone taking care to ensure that they are getting
>>>>> transitioned into bugzilla for tracking?
>>>> I can copy all regression reports into Bugzilla after each release.
>>> Should we get the regression field fix before? Or had you planned on
>>> just bypassing that completely ?
>> IMO solution proposed by David http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/27/21 seems
>> to be most reasonable.
>
> Now that I'm looking at the kernel bugzilla .. If you set the kernel
> version to 2.6.22 and set the "Regression" check box you could denote
> the fact that it's a regression in that kernel version ..
>
> I don't know if this URL is going to come out right,
>
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&tree=Mainline&long_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&kernel_version_type=allwordssubstr&kernel_version=2.6.22&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=ASSIGNED&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailcc2=1&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&regression=include&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=
>
> That should be open bugs , kernel version 2.6.22, with the regression
> check box set ..
>
> So you may not need a master tracking bug ..

Indeed, now we need a predefined search "show regressions in 2.6.x" :)

So the plan is simple:
- copy all regressions into bugzilla after each release
- make sure that all regressions reported on lkml after realase hit bugzilla
- make sure that all regressions in bugzilla are marked as regression

>
> Daniel

Regards,
Michal

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