Re: Reporting driver bugs.

[Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>]

Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> Hi everyone.
> 
> I've been involved in a little discussion this morning about reporting
> driver bugs. In the past, I've tended to point people directly to the
> driver author, but I've learnt that the preferred thing is to get people
> to open reports on bugzilla.kernel.org.
> 
> I'm therefore writing to ask if those of you who help with triage could
> point people there as well.

Unfortunately there is no one right answer.  Some driver maintainers 
don't see the bugzilla.kernel.org entry at all; others find it useful 
for tracking purposes.

At the very least, one should make sure the driver author is always CC'd 
on initial bug reports.

	Jeff