From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc8: FTP transfer errors Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:23:54 -0400 Message-ID: <47FEBDAA.7010305@rtr.ca> References: <47FEADCB.7070104@rtr.ca> <20080410.172453.44434205.davem@davemloft.net> <47FEB062.3020003@rtr.ca> <20080410.173911.179180620.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jesper.juhl@gmail.com, tilman@imap.cc, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, jeff@garzik.org, rjw@sisk.pl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20080410.173911.179180620.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org David Miller wrote: > From: Mark Lord > Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:27:14 -0400 > >> It's *your* bug -- you signed off on the commit. > > I sign off on basically every networking commit, does that mean I have > to fix every networking bug and every networking bug is "mine"? .. Absolutely, though to a varying degree. That's the responsibility that goes with the role of a subsystem maintainer. I once had such a role, and gave it up when I felt I could no longer keep up. You still keep refering to it as "your (my) bug". It's not. I had nothing to do with it, other than stumbling over it. When people stumble over a libata bug, I look hard to see if my code could possibly cause it. Jeff looks even harder, because he's the current subsystem dude for libata. I never suggest a user search through a mountain of unrelated commits for something I've screwed up on. I give more directed help, patches to collect more relevant information, and patches to try and resolve it. The last thing I'd ever do, is diss the reporter. Regards.