On 04.05.23 13:28, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
[CCing Greg, in case he's interested]
On 04.05.23 12:22, Ricardo Cañuelo wrote:
Thanks for bringing this up, [...]
BTW and JFYI (as you earlier said my docs helped you): the aspect "who is responsible to handle this regression: the regular maintainer or the stable team?" that came up earlier with this report lead me to sit down and write a text called "Why your Linux kernel bug report might be ignored or is fruitless" I published here:
https://linux-regtracking.leemhuis.info/post/frequent-reasons-why-linux-kern...
In the end that document grew a lot, but that aspect is covered there. Maybe it's helpful for you or somebody else down the road.
Still a bit unsure if there is anything else I should do with that text. Is written from the perspective of users (otherwise it will sound apologetic) and thus likely not something that would fit into the kernel's Documentation/ directory. :-/
Anyway, there is a different reason why I write:
Maybe that's because this is afaics a situation where a regression likely will remain unfixed, unless some of us do a bit more than what is expected from them. That's because I guess most people don't care much about 4.14.y anymore -- either in general or on the particular platform affected by this regression.
That leads to the question: should we spend our time on it?
As expected there wasn't any progress (at least afaics).
As mentioned earlier. In an ideal world this regression would be addressed, but it looks like it won't come down to it, as nobody is motivated enough to look closer (aka "everybody has more important things to do"). Hence I'm inclined to just remove it from the regression tacking. Or I need to create a category "bisected regressions that nevertheless are unlikely to be ever fixed" in the regzbot webui to avoid the clutter (but this is only one of a few that would fit).
Ricardo, how would do you and Kernelci folks feel about ignoring this?
Ciao, Thorsten (wearing his 'the Linux kernel's regression tracker' hat) -- Everything you wanna know about Linux kernel regression tracking: https://linux-regtracking.leemhuis.info/about/#tldr If I did something stupid, please tell me, as explained on that page.