From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:38:19 -0800 Message-ID: <20071113153819.b1ce6d5b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20071113034916.2556edd7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20071113.035824.40509981.davem@davemloft.net> <20071113041259.79c9a8c5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20071113.043207.44732743.davem@davemloft.net> <20071113193219.GC1356@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20071113201319.GL4250@stusta.de> <20071113232954.GK1356@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20071113232954.GK1356@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Sender: owner-linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Unsubscribe: To: Russell King Cc: Adrian Bunk , David Miller , alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, protasnb@gmail.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:29:54 +0000 Russell King wrote: > On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 09:13:19PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 07:32:19PM +0000, Russell King wrote: > > >... > > > There's another issue I want to raise concerning bugzilla. We have the > > > classic case of "not enough people reading bugzilla bugs" - which is one > > > of the biggest problems with bugzilla. Virtually no one in the ARM > > > community looks for ARM bugs in bugzilla. > > > > > > Let's not forget that it would be a waste of time for people to manually > > > check bugzilla for ARM bugs. There's soo few people reporting ARM bugs > > > into bugzilla that a weekly manual check by every maintainer would just > > > return the same old boring results for months and months at a time. > > >... > > > > What about having all ARM bugs in Bugzilla by default assigned to > > linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk? [1] > > That would also work, probably much better than setting up yet another > list. cpufreq (at least) does it this way. I don't know how well it is turning out in practice. It's useful if the initial report makes it clear (ie; to me) that the report has already gone to a mailing list so I don't go and forward a duplicate. But there are so few arm reports in bugzilla that this is all rather moot. > My experience of trying to get mbligh to do this when I stopped looking > after PCMCIA stuff was *extremely* painful. Wonder if it's become any > easier of late? He's a bad, bad man ;) But he's been turning these things around pretty rapidly lately.