From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754929AbXG1QVx (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jul 2007 12:21:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752515AbXG1QVq (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jul 2007 12:21:46 -0400 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.183]:10199 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751690AbXG1QVp (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jul 2007 12:21:45 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=lG+sjZzfMjp7rKdDLMqx6LTQI1IK+7DeduDT0s1xictubLDwd+BEJYOLPUEbZEDsycLuin9ajRUDTWmfVnkFfcXWu6bHoxRbUswKrBgbw1pczcnuT2El2bogh/WzlSWX68afL170b8Eb2N/2euIR++A3gzlUCDfNMVl00nhBdtU= Message-ID: <6bffcb0e0707280921v7a4d5f5ah7cf9d32eeca80aa9@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 18:21:43 +0200 From: "Michal Piotrowski" To: "Stefan Richter" Subject: Re: Reporting bugs (was Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1) Cc: "Martin Steigerwald" , ck@vds.kolivas.org, "Matthew Hawkins" , "Linus Torvalds" , "Kasper Sandberg" , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" In-Reply-To: <46AB6A83.1060205@s5r6.in-berlin.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200707281240.42308.Martin@lichtvoll.de> <46AB6A83.1060205@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, On 28/07/07, Stefan Richter wrote: > Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > There are just about 9000 bugs in the kernel bugtracker and about 150000 > > bugs in the KDE bugtracker. Granted KDE bugtracker includes a lot of > > applications, but still I think the number of bug reports in the kernel > > bugtracker is ridicolously low. And I think thats because many users > > don't bother to report bugs upstream for the Linux kernel, not because > > that those bugs aren't there. > > > > I hope that the ck mailing list community will continue to be active and > > possibly try to get swap prefetch and some other goodies of the ck > > patchset into mainline. And I think it would also be a good idea for ck > > mailing list community to report desktop related issues in the kernel > > bugtracker. I think I will take the courage next time I find anything, > > and report it straight there. > > A word of caution about bugzilla.kernel.org, to those who don't know > already: By far not all maintainers and developers use bugzilla. > I don't know for which subsystems it makes sense to file a report in > bugzilla. I think your best bet is to report at the mailinglists > listed in linux/MAINTAINERS. Please CC all bug reports to LKML. I've got a large mailbox, but I don't want to subscribe all linux-* mailing lists :). Regards, Michal -- LOG http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/log/