From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S937026AbYEBXK0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2008 19:10:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932509AbYEBXKH (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2008 19:10:07 -0400 Received: from smtp.enter.net ([216.193.128.24]:2709 "EHLO smtp.enter.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932495AbYEBXKF (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2008 19:10:05 -0400 From: Daniel Hazelton To: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: How to reduce the number of open kernel bugs Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 19:10:01 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 0.20070907.709405) Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , "Parag Warudkar" , "Adrian Bunk" , LKML References: <82e4877d0805020742l7d4a6ec9mc72e79aa3d242348@mail.gmail.com> <200805021948.48345.rjw@sisk.pl> <877iecvack.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> In-Reply-To: <877iecvack.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200805021910.02424.dhazelton@enter.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 02 May 2008 14:18:03 Andi Kleen wrote: > "Rafael J. Wysocki" writes: > >> And I have to agree here. But there should be something that can be done > >> to "coax" the maintainers that pull that kind of immature crap into > >> acting mature and responsible. > > > > Well, how exactly would you want to do that? > > He could start to fix a few such bugs he's describing (usually with > very vague reports) by himself. Or instead of fixing them just trying > to get all the information out of the reporter. Then he would realize > what the the difference between theory and practice is. > > -Andi Andi (and everyone else) note that the key word in what I said is "Should". IE: there is nothing that can be done, but I feel that the opposite should be true. DRH -- Dialup is like pissing through a pipette. Slow and excruciatingly painful.