From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759899AbYDMTxg (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Apr 2008 15:53:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755071AbYDMTr1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Apr 2008 15:47:27 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:57358 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756599AbYDMTrZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Apr 2008 15:47:25 -0400 Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:47:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20080413.124726.122432429.davem@davemloft.net> To: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: w@1wt.eu, rjw@sisk.pl, tilman@imap.cc, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, lkml@rtr.ca, jesper.juhl@gmail.com, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, jeff@garzik.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Reporting bugs and bisection From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20080413121831.d89dd424.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <200804132040.12138.rjw@sisk.pl> <20080413184730.GD8474@1wt.eu> <20080413121831.d89dd424.akpm@linux-foundation.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Andrew Morton Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:18:31 -0700 > That being said.. four or five years ago, developers would often work > closely with the reporter working out why the reporter's failure was > occurring. Several days of back-and-forth. The ratio of bug reports to developers was significantly different back then. I pine for the "good ole' days" of kernel development sometimes too, but I try to be realistic and understand why things are different now.