Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 07:36:37 -0800 (PST)
From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
cc: Yaroslav Rastrigin <yarick@it-territory.ru>,
       Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>, andersen@codepoet.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [OT?] Re: Why the DOS has many ntfs read and write driver,but
 the linux can't for a long time
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On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Lee Revell wrote:

> 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.

That's not a good attitude IMO.  I'd bet that Linus and Andrew have fixed
lots of bugs that they couldn't reproduce.

> 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.

-- 
~Randy
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