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Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 16:07:52 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
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Subject: Re: bug database braindump from the kernel summit
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On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> Manfred Spraul writes:
> > [Larry McVoy]
> 
> >> There was a lot of discussion about possible tools
> >> that would dig out the /proc/pci info

> > I think the tools should not dig too much information out of the system.
> > I remember some Microsoft (win98 beta?) bugtracking software that
> > insisted on sending a several hundert kB long compressed blob with every
> > bug report.
> > IMHO it must be possible to file bugreports without the complete hw info
> > if I know that the bug isn't hw related.
> 
> Yep. The two hardware-related items that usually matter:
> 
> Little-endian or broken-endian?
> 32-bit or 64-bit?

Matters to whom?  You, or the people actually fixing bugs?

"Broken-endian"?  whatever.

/proc/pci data alone with every bug report is usually invaluable.  It
gives you a really good idea of the general layout of the system, and
you can often catch or become aware of related hardware characteristics
which 

linux/REPORTINGS-BUGS was created to give users a hint that we need
-more- information, and tells exactly what general information is useful
to provide.  We do not need less information.

	Jeff




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