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From: "db" <db@cyclonehq.dnsalias.net>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Bug reporting script? (was: removal of redundant line in documentation)
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 14:19:27 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <00b801c0782e$bbf72960$3a00000a@danb> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01010607054600.01947@gandalf> <20010106075402.A3377@foozle.turbogeek.org> <20010106154027.A1461@conectiva.com>

[...]

> About bug reports, isn't a good thing introduce the sgi's lkcd (linux
kernel crash dump) into the main stream of 2.5? The main problem of lkcd in
2.2 was the lack of kiobufs.
>
> I think it as a good thing, for distributions, the distribution guys have
the vmlinuz image of the distro, so when a bug happens the user only needs
to send the crash dump to the distribution kernel hacker, and he can discuss
the bug on lkml.
>
> This introduce a new kind of bug reporter, if the distribution makes
avalaible every new development kernel as a package, a user can download and
use, crash and report the bug without any knowledge about kernel. So the
marketing guys can say: 'help the development of linux without hacking,
report bugs'.



I think this would be a great idea.



Dan Browning, Cyclone Computer Systems, danb@cyclonecomputers.com



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  reply	other threads:[~2001-01-06 22:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-06  5:51 [PATCHlet]: removal of redundant line in documentation Matthias Juchem
2001-01-06 13:54 ` Bug reporting script? (was: removal of redundant line in documentation) Jeremy M. Dolan
2001-01-06 12:33   ` Matthias Juchem
2001-01-08 23:45     ` Pavel Machek
2001-01-10 19:05       ` Matthias Juchem
2001-01-11  8:58         ` Pavel Machek
2001-01-06 17:40   ` Augusto César Radtke
2001-01-06 22:19     ` db [this message]
2001-01-07  1:21     ` Bug reporting script? Matthias Juchem

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