From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422726AbWGJRcG (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:32:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422727AbWGJRcG (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:32:06 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:12688 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422725AbWGJRcE (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:32:04 -0400 Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 10:11:31 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Daniel Bonekeeper Cc: "Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu" , Adrian Bunk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Automatic Kernel Bug Report Message-ID: <20060710081131.GA2251@elf.ucw.cz> References: <6bffcb0e0607090245t2dbcd394n86ce91eec661f215@mail.gmail.com> <20060709125805.GF13938@stusta.de> <20060709191107.GN13938@stusta.de> <200607092019.k69KJt66005527@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > >> Sometimes the user may be just somebody that just started using linux, > >> or is in an industry that has nothing related to computers. He doesn't > >> even know that syslog exists, and even if he did, he could not even > >> care about it. > > > >This user will do whatever his distro tells him to do, which is almost > >certainly something *other* than what a kernel.org kernel should do. > >If he's running Ubuntu, it should do whatever Ubuntu does. If he's > >on Fedora Core, it should poke the RedHat bugzilla, and so on. > > > >If he's running a kernel.org kernel, it's probably safe to assume *some* > >level of clue > > > > This was actually just an example circunstance of why somebody would > not report a bug. Dozens of other circunstances may be given, and it > just illustrates why would be good to have those bug reports without > user interaction. Of course I can go to bugzilla and fill a report > upon a bug, but I wouldn't care to have bug reports being sent from my > servers automatically, if it's an option. This would ensure that even > bug report from non-caring users are, well, reported. Well, unless we have some volunteer to go through the bugreports and sort them/kill the invalid ones/etc... this is going to do more harm than good. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html