From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756449AbYDFV7V (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Apr 2008 17:59:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755139AbYDFV7M (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Apr 2008 17:59:12 -0400 Received: from ogre.sisk.pl ([217.79.144.158]:50730 "EHLO ogre.sisk.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754007AbYDFV7L (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Apr 2008 17:59:11 -0400 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Adrian Bunk Subject: Re: TUNER_TDA8290=y, VIDEO_DEV=n build error Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 23:59:17 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 20070904.708012) Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Toralf Feorster References: <200804041137.40582.rjw@sisk.pl> <20080406214333.GH30987@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> In-Reply-To: <20080406214333.GH30987@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200804062359.17915.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sunday, 6 of April 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 11:37:40AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Friday, 4 of April 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 01:20:32AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > The following report is on the current list of known regressions > > > > from 2.6.24. Please verify if the issue is still present in the > > > > mainline. > > > > > > When you asked me just 2 days ago exactly the same question in the > > > Bugzilla entry I immediately confirmed it's still present. > > > > > > Was anything wrong with my answer (and the subsequent discussions) that > > > you now also ask Toralf for confirmation? > > > > This text is automatically added to the messages sent in replies to the main > > report. > > > > Well, it probably could be better. I'm open for suggestions. :-) > > First of all you try to get the tracking of all bugs into Bugzilla, and > now you've sent a batch of emails where the answers will not get into > Bugzilla automatically. So? > As an example, for the bug we are talking about the main value of you > asking me in Bugzilla was not that I confirmed it's still present, the > main value was that this caused Mauro to make a fix. What would have > happened if Toralf had answered in an email that the bug is still > present? Most probably, I would add a reference to his reply to the bugzilla entry. > And especially for trickier stuff like suspend/resume problems it might > also make sense to send the email to all people who might possibly be > involved with the bug - even if this means putting all email addresses > from 5 MAINTAINERS entries into one email. It takes a bit more time when > writing the emails, but my experience was it's worth it. Yes, I'm going to do that in the future. Thanks, Rafael