Re: Who wants to maintain KR list for stable releases? (was Re: nmi_watchdog=2 regression in 2.6.21)

Bill Davidsen
2007-08-30T15:54:26Z

Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 12:42:02AM -0700, Natalie Protasevich wrote:
>> ...
>> Then I think bugzilla needs:
>> adding more categories such as security,
>
> "security" would be a flag like "regression", not a category.
>
>> system calls (lots of
>> implementation suggestions for posix and non-posix ones),
>> ...
>
> Bugzilla is for tracking bugs, not for discussing possible
> kernel features.
>
> Tracking feature or implementation suggestions wouldn't make sense.
> Consider e.g. that there are several people on linux-kernel who often
> write what they think the kernel should do but who never write a single
> line of code themselves. There's no value in tracking such stuff.
>
That's an interesting viewpoint, only programmers have useful
thoughts... ignoring users, people who have CS degrees but don't code,
etc. I would think there's value in any rational suggestions which
include technical justification for the suggestion.

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