Re: How to reduce the number of open kernel bugs

Daniel Hazelton
2008-05-02T23:16:22Z

On Friday 02 May 2008 14:01:51 Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 01:30:23PM -0400, Parag Warudkar wrote:
> > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@enter.net>
> > wrote: This is what Adrian was pointing
<snip>
>
> From what I forwarded it's clear that we have a bug somewhere in the
> kernel.
>
> And the maintainer might well be right that it's not in his driver.

This is something that can't be known without enough information from the
person reporting the bug. From what you posted of the bugzilla entry it's
unclear whether the reporter did post more than his simple description or
not.

However, the point is well made and I, at least, agree. (whatever that may be
worth - I've never managed to finish a patch for anything without seeing the
equivalent show up here later)

> Which means to reassign the bug to the maintainer of the area this bug
> is in.

Yep. Closing it with a comment of "broken hardware" is an incorrect response.
Doubly or trebly so if the bugzilla entry didn't contain enough information
to even determine whether the bug was in the driver or not.

DRH

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