Re: MPlayer broken under 2.6.15-rc7-rt1?

[Bradley Reed <bradreed1@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 10:14:21 +0100
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 20:29 +0200, Bradley Reed wrote:
> > I have tried MPlayer versions 1.0pre6, 1.0pre7, and cvs from today
> > and they all work fine under 2.6.14 and 2.6.14-rt21/22.
> > 
> > I booted into 2.6.15-rc7-rt1 and the same MPlayer binaries segfault
> > on every video I try and play. Yes, I have nvidia modules loaded,
> > so won't get much help, but thought someone might like to know. 
> 
> 
> you know, you could have done a little bit more effort and reproduced
> this without the binary crud... it's not that hard you know and it
> shows that you actually care about the problem enough that you want
> to make it worthwhile for people to look into it.
> 

And you could have saved the time and effort of replying, as you had
nothing useful to say. Why do you expect kernel users (non-developers) 
to jump through hoops and cripple their systems in order to provide bug
reports? Exactly how could I have tested MPLayer realistically without
Xv support? It isn't that easy to swap video cards in a laptop.

I noticed that after trying a new kernel a user space tool, which
worked fine under earlier kernels, was no longer working. Linus himself
said that this is worth pointing out. I did so. 

Yes, I was very fortunate in that someone else with a non-tainted
kernel noticed a similar bug with /dev/rtc, and even more fortunate
that Steven Rostedt provided a patch that worked for both of us. As I
had said in my original post I was not expecting that, but thought the
bug was worth reporting.

DO YOU REALLY PREFER USERS NOT REPORT BUGS?

Brad