On 5/23/23 00:05, Linux regression tracking (Thorsten Leemhuis) wrote: > Darrick, sorry for the trouble. Bagas recently out of the blue started > to help with adding regressions to the tracking. That's great, but OTOH > it means that it's likely time to write a few things up that are obvious > to some of us and myself. > > Bagas, please for the foreseeable future don't add regressions found by > syzkaller to the regression tracking, unless some well known developer > actually looked into the issue and indicated that it's something that > needs to be fixed. > > Syzbot is great. But it occasionally does odd things or goes of the > rails. And in can easily find problems that didn't happen in an earlier > version, but are unlikely to be encountered by users in practice (aka > "in the wild"). And we normally don't consider those regressions that > needs to be fixed. > Oops, at the moment I didn't know how to distinguish true regressions and issues found by the bot, so I thought that both are regressions. Thanks for the tip! -- An old man doll... just what I always wanted! - Clara
