On 04/05/2011 04:49 PM, Jeff Law wrote: > On 04/04/11 20:57, H.J. Lu wrote: >> Patch was checked in at Fri Apr 1 17:46:17 2011. I reported the failure >> at 2011-04-01 18:49:28 and identified the range of causes. It is too bad >> to take 3 days to fix it. > Note the checking was Friday evening, it's entirely possible that the > offender has a life and didn't work over the weekend.
The offender worked a number of hours Saturday to reproduce the problem and investigate its cause. When it became apparent in the very late evening that the fix would be more than a one-liner and would involve testing some nonstandard options on ppc, I posted a status update with an ETA. IMO that (or earlier) would have been a good moment for anyone who was unable to do development work on Sunday due to the breakage to ask for a revert, rather than overreact later _after_ the problem was fixed. My (incorrect) perspective at that point was still that I had successful bootstraps on two machines with three different installations of Linux, vs a failure on only one, and no one had asked for the patch to be reverted, so the problem was likely to be not too bad. The fact that other architectures than x86 were affected had also not been reported at the time. Bernd
