From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423061AbXD3GKp (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 02:10:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423052AbXD3GKp (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 02:10:45 -0400 Received: from mail.syneticon.net ([213.239.212.131]:33705 "EHLO mail2.syneticon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423061AbXD3GKo (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 02:10:44 -0400 Message-ID: <46358809.4070909@wpkg.org> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:09:13 +0200 From: Tomasz Chmielewski User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061110 Mandriva/1.5.0.8-1mdv2007.1 (2007.1) Thunderbird/1.5.0.8 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.21 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David Miller wrote: >> > I reported a bug that eats people's hard disks due to a bug >> > in the X.ORG PCI support code on sparc, NOBODY has fixed >> > the bug in 2 years even though a full bugzilla entry with >> > even a full patch fix is in there. >> >> Well but at least they could find it again if they wanted. >> If you sent it by email and it had gotten lost for some reason >> (nobody interested, which seems to be the real issue here) then >> it would be lost forever. > > WRONG! If I have sent it to the main developer list the damn patch > would be applied by now. Why didn't you do it then? Why didn't you send your patch to the main developer? Wouldn't be your problem fixed if you did it? > WHY? > > BECAUSE EMAIL ENGAGES PEOPLE AND BUGZILLA DOES NOT! -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org