From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord Subject: Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:47:10 -0500 Message-ID: <4739F12E.5020807@rtr.ca> References: <20071113.033946.114918709.davem@davemloft.net> <20071113034916.2556edd7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20071113.035824.40509981.davem@davemloft.net> <20071113041259.79c9a8c5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20071113134029.GA30978@elte.hu> <4739AFE0.20705@rtr.ca> <20071113164650.GA28493@elte.hu> <4739E3D0.10201@rtr.ca> <20071113181228.GF4250@stusta.de> <4739EA83.5040006@rtr.ca> <20071113183605.GG4250@stusta.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20071113183605.GG4250@stusta.de> Sender: owner-linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Unsubscribe: To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , David Miller , protasnb@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org, linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Adrian Bunk wrote: ... > I did bisecting myself, and I know that it costs time and work. > > But the first point is the above one that it makes otherwise nearly > undebuggable problems debuggable and fixable. .. Definitely useful, no question. But the problem is now that kernel devs are addicted to it, many won't even consider resolving a problem any other way. That's not "maintaining" (or supporting) one's code. And when a "maintainer" is too busy to find/fix their own bugs, that could be a sign that they've bitten off too big of a chunk of the kernel, and it's time for them to distribute code maintainership. Cheers