Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932205AbWI0BUk (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:20:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932225AbWI0BUk (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:20:40 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:30417 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932205AbWI0BUb (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:20:31 -0400 Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:15:57 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Nigel Cunningham , suspend2-devel , suspend2-users , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , LKML Subject: Re: Reporting driver bugs. Message-Id: <20060926181557.16a19343.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <4519C991.4070604@garzik.org> References: <1159316745.5341.5.camel@nigel.suspend2.net> <4519C991.4070604@garzik.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1137 Lines: 28 On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 20:45:05 -0400 Jeff Garzik wrote: > Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > Hi everyone. > > > > I've been involved in a little discussion this morning about reporting > > driver bugs. In the past, I've tended to point people directly to the > > driver author, but I've learnt that the preferred thing is to get people > > to open reports on bugzilla.kernel.org. > > > > I'm therefore writing to ask if those of you who help with triage could > > point people there as well. > > Unfortunately there is no one right answer. Some driver maintainers > don't see the bugzilla.kernel.org entry at all; others find it useful > for tracking purposes. > > At the very least, one should make sure the driver author is always CC'd > on initial bug reports. > I screen all bugzilla reports and ensure that each one gets to the appropriate developer, if there is one. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/