From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161123AbWGIU1f (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Jul 2006 16:27:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161125AbWGIU1f (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Jul 2006 16:27:35 -0400 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.180]:25312 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161123AbWGIU1e (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Jul 2006 16:27:34 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=LzwXj7iabhgm38tRwhT86WkK8lVDRNuSYGk+FaBn2wSEjUs8KBjW2WEDvxX/DV+MKIWclhvPDzeRFnntj7ffIILrWJBp3MywSeRmU243+MUDFKQ/iUDnX8MQ8UCUeiMlUXcca/rMWjDzy3r/6sVB3aMn66uMZJiD6NmT1ajgjx4= Message-ID: Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 16:27:33 -0400 From: "Daniel Bonekeeper" To: "Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu" Subject: Re: Automatic Kernel Bug Report Cc: "Adrian Bunk" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200607092019.k69KJt66005527@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <6bffcb0e0607090245t2dbcd394n86ce91eec661f215@mail.gmail.com> <20060709125805.GF13938@stusta.de> <20060709191107.GN13938@stusta.de> <200607092019.k69KJt66005527@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 7/9/06, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 16:01:58 EDT, Daniel Bonekeeper said: > > > 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. Daniel -- What this world needs is a good five-dollar plasma weapon.