Subject: Re: [OT?] Re: Why the DOS has many ntfs read and write driver,but
	the linux can't for a long time
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Yaroslav Rastrigin <yarick@it-territory.ru>
Cc: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>, andersen@codepoet.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 10:15:03 -0500
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On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 17:51 +0300, Yaroslav Rastrigin wrote:
> Hi, Lee,
> On 9 January 2006 16:54, you wrote:
> > > 
> > 
> > Where are the bug reports?  You didn't expect these to just fix
> > themselves did you?
> Been there, done that. Bugreport about malfunctioning (due to ACPI) 3c556 in IBM ThinkPad T20 was looked at once in a few months without any progress, 
> and I've finally lost track of it after changing hardware. In more than a year this problem wasn't solved, so I'm assuming bugreports aren't so effective.
> 2200BG ping and packet loss problem was reported in ipw2200-devel mailing list recently (by another user), and the only answer was 
> "Switch to version 1.0.0" (which is tooo old and missing needed features and bugfixes, so recommentation was unacceptable). So I'm assuming addressing 
> developers directly is not too effective either. 
> Two other options I see are to debug/fix it by myself and try to stimulate others monetarily. First option isn't really affordable for me , 
> so I'm trying to research second. 

Bug reports certainly are effective, but if no one else can reproduce
your problem then obviously it can't be fixed.

A bug report that gets no responses is a good sign that you need to
provide more information or work a little harder to debug it yourself.

Lee

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