Explicitly lay out the remaining options if the user can't reproduce the
issue with a mainline kernel. Especially send those that are interested
in seeing it fixed in stable and longterm kernels to a section dedicated
to it (added in a later patch), as the process would get hard to follow
if all of it was explained here; especially as there is a back reference
to this process for regressions that are specific to stable and longterm
and were never present in mainline.
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <[email protected]>
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Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-bugs.rst | 16 ++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-bugs.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-bugs.rst
index 02f846f4a324..2a7d13562905 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-bugs.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-bugs.rst
@@ -744,6 +744,22 @@ for it before you reporting issues that occur with it. See the section above for
details how to do that.
+Reproduce issue with the fresh kernel
+-------------------------------------
+
+ *Reproduce the issue with the kernel you just installed. If it doesn't show
+ up there, head over to the instructions for issues only happening with
+ stable and longterm kernels if you want to see it fixed there.*
+
+Check if the issue occurs with the Linux kernel you just installed. If it was
+fixed there already, consider sticking with this version line and canceling
+your plan to report the issue. But keep in mind that other users might be
+plagued by it, as long as it's not fixed in either stable and longterm version
+from kernel.org (and thus vendor kernels derived from those). If you prefer to
+use one of those and help their users, head over to the section "Details about
+reporting issues only occurring in older kernel version lines" below.
+
+
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.. Temporary marker added while this document is rewritten. Sections above
.. are new and dual-licensed under GPLv2+ and CC-BY 4.0, those below are old.
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