Re: How to improve the quality of the kernel?

Natalie Protasevich
2007-06-18T22:31:20Z

On 6/18/07, Fortier,Vincent [Montreal] <Vincent.Fortier1@ec.gc.ca> wrote:
> > -----Message d'origine-----
> > De : linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
> > [mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org] De la part de
> > Andrew Morton
> >
> > On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 01:15:15 +0200 Stefan Richter
> > <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> wrote:
> >
> > > Tested-by
> >
> > Tested-by would be good too. Because over time, we will
> > generate a list of people who own the relevant hardware and
> > who are prepared to test changes.
>
> Why not include a user-space tool that, when invoked, if you agree to
> send personnal info, sends your hardware vs driver info to a web
> database + your email address (maybie even you .config, etc..) ... In
> case of help for testing new patches/finding a bug/etc.. your email
> could be used by maintainers to ask for help...
>
> > So if you make changes to random-driver.c you can do `git-log
> > random-driver.c|grep Tested-by" to find people who can test
> > your changes for you.
>
> You would'nt even need to search in GIT. Maybie even when ever a
> patchset is being proposed a mail could be sent to appropriate
> hardware/or feature pseudo-auto-generated mailing-list?
>
> On lkml I mostly try to follow patches/bugs associated with hardware I
> use. Why not try to automate the process and get more testers in?
>

I think this is an excellent point. One data point could be a field in
bugzilla to input the hardware information. Simple query can select
common hardware and platform. So far it's not working when hardware is
just mentioned in the text part.

--Natalie

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