Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 20:03:16 -0400
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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On Wed, 4 Jun 2014 00:48:16 +0100
Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop@ntlworld.com> wrote:

>  This is _often_ not like userspace programs where you can write a
> testsuite to exercise the corner cases.  Kernel problems can be
> tied up with intricate details of the hardware, or equally they
> might happen only for certain usage, and for those it might not be
> at all obvious what is "special" about the affected usage.

Very true. Most of the Tested-by: tags I give is for one of my older
boxes that triggers bugs that none of my other boxes do. Can't really
add a test case for that. If only I could insert my test box into the
git repository :-/

-- Steve

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