Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265358AbTF1TIg (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2003 15:08:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265346AbTF1TIf (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2003 15:08:35 -0400 Received: from pc2-cwma1-4-cust86.swan.cable.ntl.com ([213.105.254.86]:43658 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265342AbTF1TIZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2003 15:08:25 -0400 Subject: Re: networking bugs and bugme.osdl.org From: Alan Cox To: "David S. Miller" Cc: greearb@candelatech.com, davidel@xmailserver.org, mbligh@aracnet.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-net@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com In-Reply-To: <20030627.172123.78713883.davem@redhat.com> References: <3EFCC1EB.2070904@candelatech.com> <20030627.151906.102571486.davem@redhat.com> <1056755336.5459.16.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030627.172123.78713883.davem@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1056827972.6295.28.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 28 Jun 2003 20:19:32 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1230 Lines: 30 On Sad, 2003-06-28 at 01:21, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Alan Cox > Date: 28 Jun 2003 00:08:56 +0100 > > Tried doing an SQL query or text analysis for similarities on random > messages lurking in private mailboxes > > I respond to private reports with "please send this to the lists, > what if I were on vacation for the next month?" I never actually > process or analyze such reports. Which means you miss stuff. Here is an example my tools found yesterday 18 months ago someone with a specific printer reported doing network printing to it crashed the kernel. Lost in the noise, filed in bugzilla, categorised mentally at the time as "weird". Not long ago a second identical report popped up. Different setup, same network printing, similar "it reboots" report. So now I've gone chasing tcpdumps from these. Its a *different* thing to the kind of patch management you are doing, but its only possible because of tools like bugzilla - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/