Re: Linux 2.6.13

Jörn Engel
2005-08-29T12:25:45Z

On Mon, 29 August 2005 22:17:30 +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 20:57, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 17:17 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Paul Mackerras:
> > > Remove race between con_open and con_close
> >
> > Hey, I'm the first to report this with the fix and Paul gets the credit?
> > I guess I'll crawl back to my little world (RT) where they actually
> > appreciate me. :-(
>
> Did you report it or fix it? :>

Doesn't really matter to me. A good bug report is often 90% of the
work, with the actual fix falling into the misc. category. Testers
really deserve some credit. ;)

Ok, many bug reports are also quite useless. Good testers therefore
deserve even more credit.

Jörn

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