Re: pull request: wireless-2.6 2008-11-18

Marcel Holtmann
2008-11-24T08:34:03Z

Hi Yi,

>> http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1703
>>
>> and just relying on Bugzilla is not gonna be good enough. The Linux
>> kernel development has always been done via mailing lists. And while
>> there is a kernel and other Bugzillas, the main authority is still
>> the
>> mailing list. So if you wanna get massive feedback or have testing
>> patches for debugging, then these need to be posted to linux-wireless
>> and not "hidden" into a Bugzilla.
>
> This is generally true for bugs easy to debug with. But in this
> example,
> the first reporter opened this bug 4 months ago. People usually don't
> follow thread for such a long time. There are also some reporters
> never
> show up in this ML.

true to some degree, but searching mailing list archives is a lot
simpler then bug reports.

>> I do have a perfect environment in Vancouver that allows me to
>> trigger
>> this behavior within a few minutes. So if you really wanna debug
>> this,
>> then just send debug patches to the mailing list and I am happy to
>> run
>> such kernels.
>
> Can you still reproduce this bug with Johannes' patch?

we will see once I am back in Vancouver. Will be some time in December
though.

Regards

Marcel