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 12:43:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 12:42:41 -0500 Received: from srv8-bnu.bnu.terra.com.br ([200.248.48.18]:9738 "EHLO srv8-bnu.bnu.terra.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 12:42:30 -0500 Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 15:40:27 -0200 From: Augusto César Radtke To: "Jeremy M. Dolan" Cc: Matthias Juchem , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Bug reporting script? (was: removal of redundant line in documentation) Message-ID: <20010106154027.A1461@conectiva.com> Mail-Followup-To: Augusto César Radtke , "Jeremy M. Dolan" , Matthias Juchem , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <01010607054600.01947@gandalf> <20010106075402.A3377@foozle.turbogeek.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010106075402.A3377@foozle.turbogeek.org>; from jmd@foozle.turbogeek.org on Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 07:54:02AM -0600 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jeremy M. Dolan wrote: > If ver_linux can take off one of those steps, why not include a script > which takes care of ALL the leg work? All of the files it asks the > reporter to include are o+r... > > I can whip up a bug_report script to walk the user though all of the > steps in REPORTING-BUGS, if the list isn't averse to 'dumbing down' > the process to the point where maybe some people who shouldn't be > submiting bugs (two words: 'user error') end up not being scared off > by the process. > 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'. Comments? Augusto - 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/