Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 30 Oct 2005 14:55:33 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: New (now current development process) |
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Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote: > > That's fine if you have the hardware to be able to debug these issues.
Most driver bugs cannot be reproduced by the developer. Almost by definition: if the patch had caused problems on the developer's machine, he wouldn't have shipped it.
This is why we have this wonderful group of long-suffering people who download and test development kernels for us, and who take the time to report defects.
Yes, it's painful to get into a long-range debugging session, sending debug patches, twelve-hour turnaround, etc. But what alternative have we? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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