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To:     Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>,
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From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
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On 1/10/21 4:10 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> * About 66 of those ~200 components will assign bugs to email addresses
>   that look valid, but 125 of them end with @kernel-bugs.osdl.org or
>   @kernel-bugs.kernel.org. Those domains do not exist anymore, mails
>   sent there bounce ('Unrouteable address'). It's possible that the
>   server might be rewriting those domain names and nevertheless
>   delivers new reports and comments by mails to some human; but it
>   seems more like they never get mailed to anyone and thus just linger
>   in the database; no wonder quite a few of bugs filed against such
>   components never get a single reply (see below).

Those @kernel-bugs email addresses should not be a problem:

  https://korg.docs.kernel.org/bugzilla.html#real-assignees-vs-virtual-assignees


AFAIK, USB bugs go to linux-usb@vger.kernel.org,
SCSI bugs go to linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org.

netdev didn't want bugs sent there automatically IIRC, so a
human takes care of doing that if warranted.

Andrew Morton takes MM bugs and Cc:s them to linux-mm mailing list
and then asks for discussion to continue on the mailing list.


We could/should probably see if we can add more project-specific
mailing lists to the automatic reporting -- but probably not LKML.

Otherwise some bug reports might never be heard about.

-- 
~Randy