2020-11-12 18:01:59

by Thorsten Leemhuis

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Subject: [RFC PATCH v2 25/26] docs: reporting-bugs: explain things could be easier

A few closing words to explain why things are like this until someone
steps up to make things easier.

Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <[email protected]>
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Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-bugs.rst | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-bugs.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-bugs.rst
index 446c02e94c93..592329afc2a5 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-bugs.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-bugs.rst
@@ -1524,6 +1524,15 @@ But don't worry too much about all of this, a lot of drivers have active
maintainers who are quite interested in fixing as many issues as possible.


+Closing words
+=============
+
+Compared with other Free/Libre & Open Source Software it's hard to report
+issues to the Linux kernel developers: the length and complexity of this
+document and the implications between the lines illustrate that. But that's how
+it is for now. The main author of this text hopes documenting the state of the
+art will lay some groundwork to improve the situation over time.
+
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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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