Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765055AbXFRWbU (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:31:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1764888AbXFRWbH (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:31:07 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.174]:16703 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1764140AbXFRWbF (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:31:05 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Tp5+nUO6AAYxaWiBrJY77+zOKlFDtNFjlgYYOgNPLt0N+zSCcYXlDnqjgDYgIzen5w1lSafFIswo+vQCJ+5CWf9DwSnpL5TJKNAzZ4Q4f7+ExsMinfBkVopD0MTcjBhsgb1tkWgzXq2Pti7crs3k6GEymrTiFqoaHszYax8V5lg= Message-ID: <32209efe0706181531x5322533dr31dc90e6dd8c7973@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:31:04 -0700 From: "Natalie Protasevich" To: "Fortier,Vincent [Montreal]" Subject: Re: How to improve the quality of the kernel? Cc: "Andrew Morton" , "Stefan Richter" , "Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz" , "Adrian Bunk" , "Michal Piotrowski" , "Oleg Verych" , "Linus Torvalds" , "Andi Kleen" , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , "Diego Calleja" , "Chuck Ebbert" , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200706172053.41806.bzolnier@gmail.com> <20070617115258.1f55b29d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <200706172349.08813.bzolnier@gmail.com> <4675C083.6080409@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <20070617220927.99ebc1ee.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2108 Lines: 52 On 6/18/07, Fortier,Vincent [Montreal] wrote: > > -----Message d'origine----- > > De : linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org > > [mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org] De la part de > > Andrew Morton > > > > On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 01:15:15 +0200 Stefan Richter > > wrote: > > > > > Tested-by > > > > Tested-by would be good too. Because over time, we will > > generate a list of people who own the relevant hardware and > > who are prepared to test changes. > > Why not include a user-space tool that, when invoked, if you agree to > send personnal info, sends your hardware vs driver info to a web > database + your email address (maybie even you .config, etc..) ... In > case of help for testing new patches/finding a bug/etc.. your email > could be used by maintainers to ask for help... > > > So if you make changes to random-driver.c you can do `git-log > > random-driver.c|grep Tested-by" to find people who can test > > your changes for you. > > You would'nt even need to search in GIT. Maybie even when ever a > patchset is being proposed a mail could be sent to appropriate > hardware/or feature pseudo-auto-generated mailing-list? > > On lkml I mostly try to follow patches/bugs associated with hardware I > use. Why not try to automate the process and get more testers in? > I think this is an excellent point. One data point could be a field in bugzilla to input the hardware information. Simple query can select common hardware and platform. So far it's not working when hardware is just mentioned in the text part. --Natalie > - vin > - > 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/ > - 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/