Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761505AbXKMSr1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:47:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757611AbXKMSrP (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:47:15 -0500 Received: from rtr.ca ([76.10.145.34]:3650 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758597AbXKMSrM (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:47:12 -0500 Message-ID: <4739F12E.5020807@rtr.ca> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:47:10 -0500 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , David Miller , protasnb@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org, linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org Subject: Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs References: <20071113.033946.114918709.davem@davemloft.net> <20071113034916.2556edd7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20071113.035824.40509981.davem@davemloft.net> <20071113041259.79c9a8c5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20071113134029.GA30978@elte.hu> <4739AFE0.20705@rtr.ca> <20071113164650.GA28493@elte.hu> <4739E3D0.10201@rtr.ca> <20071113181228.GF4250@stusta.de> <4739EA83.5040006@rtr.ca> <20071113183605.GG4250@stusta.de> In-Reply-To: <20071113183605.GG4250@stusta.de> 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: 876 Lines: 25 Adrian Bunk wrote: ... > I did bisecting myself, and I know that it costs time and work. > > But the first point is the above one that it makes otherwise nearly > undebuggable problems debuggable and fixable. .. Definitely useful, no question. But the problem is now that kernel devs are addicted to it, many won't even consider resolving a problem any other way. That's not "maintaining" (or supporting) one's code. And when a "maintainer" is too busy to find/fix their own bugs, that could be a sign that they've bitten off too big of a chunk of the kernel, and it's time for them to distribute code maintainership. Cheers - 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/