Please review the sparc64 bugs in the kernel Bugzilla

Please review the sparc64 bugs in the kernel Bugzilla

[Adrian Bunk]

Hi,

the kernel Bugzilla [1] currently contains 8 open [2] sparc64 bugs.

Can you review them (some might require to first ask the submitter 
whether they are still present in recent kernels)?

It's not a good thing that even issues like #2683 stayed unanswered for 
a long time.

TIA
Adrian

[1] http://bugzilla.kernel.org/
[2] status "new" or "assigned"

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Re: Please review the sparc64 bugs in the kernel Bugzilla

[David S. Miller]

From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 02:29:33 +0200

> the kernel Bugzilla [1] currently contains 8 open [2] sparc64 bugs.

I've stated repeatedly in the past that	I choose not to
use the kernel bugzilla facility.  I process all networking
and sparc64 bugs via the appropriate mailing lists.

If you wish to forward bug reports to the appropriate mailing list so
that they get worked on, that's great.

Re: Please review the sparc64 bugs in the kernel Bugzilla

[Adrian Bunk]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 06:40:09PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
> Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 02:29:33 +0200
> 
> > the kernel Bugzilla [1] currently contains 8 open [2] sparc64 bugs.
> 
> I've stated repeatedly in the past that	I choose not to
> use the kernel bugzilla facility.  I process all networking
> and sparc64 bugs via the appropriate mailing lists.

Sorry, I didn't know about this.

May I ask why?

> If you wish to forward bug reports to the appropriate mailing list so
> that they get worked on, that's great.

What about doing this automatically by setting a mailing list as owner 
of the sparc64 bug component?

cu
Adrian

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Re: Please review the sparc64 bugs in the kernel Bugzilla

[David S. Miller]

From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 01:34:01 +0200

> May I ask why?

Because I shouldn't have to spend time on some bugzilla web site just
to work on some bug.  The bugs should come to me, by being reported to
the appropriate mailing list, I shouldn't have to seek them.

The kernel bugzilla exists only to make some bean counters at some
corporations happy that there is some place to track kernel bugs.  But
this is wholly incompatible with how upstream kernel development
works.  The kernel bugzilla database would never have been created
with the sole impetus of the core kernel folks, that's simply not how
we work.

That is why.

Sending bugzilla reports directly to the list is not the answer.
That means a lot of garbage ends up on the list, so if anything
it should either:

1) get forwarded by hand by someone willing to volunteer to
   filter out the crap
2) get sent directly to the right mailing list in the first
   place, bypassing the kernel bugzilla altogether

The latter is what happens in practice for sparc stuff.

Re: Please review the sparc64 bugs in the kernel Bugzilla

[Adrian Bunk]

On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 04:48:31PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
> Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 01:34:01 +0200
> 
> > May I ask why?
> 
> Because I shouldn't have to spend time on some bugzilla web site just
> to work on some bug.  The bugs should come to me, by being reported to
> the appropriate mailing list, I shouldn't have to seek them.
> 
> The kernel bugzilla exists only to make some bean counters at some
> corporations happy that there is some place to track kernel bugs.  But
> this is wholly incompatible with how upstream kernel development
> works.  The kernel bugzilla database would never have been created
> with the sole impetus of the core kernel folks, that's simply not how
> we work.

At least recently, Andrew is extensively using the Bugzilla.

> That is why.
> 
> Sending bugzilla reports directly to the list is not the answer.
> That means a lot of garbage ends up on the list, so if anything
> it should either:
> 
> 1) get forwarded by hand by someone willing to volunteer to
>    filter out the crap

OK, I'll start with forwarding the current sparc64 bugs (no, I won't 
forward unfiltered crap).

> 2) get sent directly to the right mailing list in the first
>    place, bypassing the kernel bugzilla altogether
> 
> The latter is what happens in practice for sparc stuff.

cu
Adrian

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