Messages in this thread | | | From | "db" <> | Subject | Re: Bug reporting script? (was: removal of redundant line in documentation) | Date | Sat, 6 Jan 2001 14:19:27 -0800 |
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> About bug reports, isn't a good thing introduce the sgi's lkcd (linux kernel crash dump) into the main stream of 2.5? The main problem of lkcd in 2.2 was the lack of kiobufs. > > I think it as a good thing, for distributions, the distribution guys have the vmlinuz image of the distro, so when a bug happens the user only needs to send the crash dump to the distribution kernel hacker, and he can discuss the bug on lkml. > > This introduce a new kind of bug reporter, if the distribution makes avalaible every new development kernel as a package, a user can download and use, crash and report the bug without any knowledge about kernel. So the marketing guys can say: 'help the development of linux without hacking, report bugs'.
I think this would be a great idea.
Dan Browning, Cyclone Computer Systems, danb@cyclonecomputers.com
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