trunk test result inconsistencies

[Jeff Law]

On 04/22/2015 06:28 AM, Andrew MacLeod wrote:
> On 04/22/2015 08:19 AM, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 08:04:03AM -0400, Andrew MacLeod wrote:
>>> Is anyone else seeing comparison problems on trunk?
>>>
>>> I was having problems testing a patch on a 4/16 extraction, so last
>>> night I
>>> checked out a fresh trunk, built it, ran make check... then removed the
>>> build directory, re-built it from scratch again. make check..  and get a
>>> bunch of different results.     I even used test_summary instead of
>>> my own
>>> home-grown scripts.
>> That is a buggy kernel, you must have missed a warning not to upgrade
>> your
>> kernel.  See
>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96311
>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/4/13/600
>> Dunno what progress has been on that patch since then, don't see it in
>> latest Linus' git though.
>> AFAIK at least 3.19 and 4.0 kernels are affected.
> A nice. Thanks.   I did not see the warning, no :-)  That pretty
> seriously buggy!
> It may also have been poor timing on installing the OS and initial
> upgrading of all the packages
shell.devel.redhat.com/~law has a 4.0 kernel with the tty fix if you 
don't want to try and downgrade.

jeff