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On 10/08/2017 21:16, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
> On 2017-08-10 17:13:58 +0000 (+0000), Mooney, Sean K wrote:
> [...]
>> so on that it would bre quite trivial to have disk image builder
>> install The linux-image-virtual-hwe-16.04
>> linux-image-virtual-hwe-16.04-edge to pull in a 4.10 or 4.11
>> kernel respctivly if the default 4.4 is broken. We just need a new
>> dib element to install the package And modify the  nodepool config
>> to include it when it rebuildes the image every night.
>> Alternitivly You can pull a vanilla kernel form
>> http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ Follow the process
>> documented here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/MainlineBuilds If
>> you want to maintain testing with 4.4.x
> [...]
> 
> Sure, your definition of "quite trivial" just differs a lot from
> mine. Given that the bug in question seems to have no further impact
> to the pace of development with the discussed test temporarily
> disabled, that strikes me as a lot more maintainable in the long run
> for a problem which started getting urgent attention from the distro
> as soon as it was reported to them and will likely be resolved over
> the course of the next few days at which point we'll automatically
> update to the fixed version and you can try reenabling that test
> again.

Yeah, I totally agree with Jeremy. Ubuntu folks are very active :)
Thanks for that. My best hope is they are gonna backport the fix to
4.4.0 and tag a new kernel so we can start running the tests again.