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Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 13:12:08 +0100
From: jerome lacoste <jerome.lacoste@gmail.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: MPlayer broken under 2.6.15-rc7-rt1?
Cc: Bradley Reed <bradreed1@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On 1/1/06, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > DO YOU REALLY PREFER USERS NOT REPORT BUGS?

[...]

> So getting back to your question:
> I would say that I think it's generally better that bugs that cannot be
> reproduced on an untainted kernel are not reported on lkml, but reported
> to the vendor of the tainting module instead, simply because it's very
> likely that it'll waste precious debug time.

Although I like the idea of making the vendors of binary modules
really aware of the costs they introduce with regard to debug issues
on tainted system, if I was them, the first thing I would say is
"contact the vendor of the part of the system that changed", i.e. the
kernel.

J
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