From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 17:20:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 17:20:16 -0500 Received: from c837140-a.vncvr1.wa.home.com ([65.0.81.146]:522 "EHLO cyclonehq.dnsalias.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 17:20:05 -0500 Message-ID: <00b801c0782e$bbf72960$3a00000a@danb> From: "db" To: In-Reply-To: <01010607054600.01947@gandalf> <20010106075402.A3377@foozle.turbogeek.org> <20010106154027.A1461@conectiva.com> Subject: Re: Bug reporting script? (was: removal of redundant line in documentation) Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 14:19:27 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org [...] > 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/