Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933692AbXFRXJS (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 19:09:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1764896AbXFRXJI (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 19:09:08 -0400 Received: from dvhart.com ([64.146.134.43]:44746 "EHLO dvhart.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763117AbXFRXJH (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 19:09:07 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1647 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 19:09:07 EDT Message-ID: <46770A22.4020007@mbligh.org> Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:41:38 -0700 From: Martin Bligh User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070306) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Natalie Protasevich Cc: "Fortier,Vincent [Montreal]" , 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 Subject: Re: How to improve the quality of the kernel? 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> <32209efe0706181531x5322533dr31dc90e6dd8c7973@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <32209efe0706181531x5322533dr31dc90e6dd8c7973@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1255 Lines: 28 >> > 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. if it's free text it'll be useless for search ... I suppose we could do drop-downs for architecture at least? Not sure much beyond that would work ... *possibly* the common drivers, but I don't think we'd get enough coverage for it to be of use. M. - 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/