Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 14 Jan 2006 09:55:25 +0000 | | From | Pavel Machek <> | | Subject | Re: [OT?] Re: Why the DOS has many ntfs read and write driver,but the linux can't for a long time |
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On Mon 09-01-06 07:36:37, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Lee Revell wrote: > > > On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 17:51 +0300, Yaroslav Rastrigin wrote: > > > Hi, Lee, > > > On 9 January 2006 16:54, you wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > Where are the bug reports? You didn't expect these to just fix > > > > themselves did you? > > > Been there, done that. Bugreport about malfunctioning (due to ACPI) 3c556 in IBM ThinkPad T20 was looked at once in a few months without any progress, > > > and I've finally lost track of it after changing hardware. In more than a year this problem wasn't solved, so I'm assuming bugreports aren't so effective. > > > 2200BG ping and packet loss problem was reported in ipw2200-devel mailing list recently (by another user), and the only answer was > > > "Switch to version 1.0.0" (which is tooo old and missing needed features and bugfixes, so recommentation was unacceptable). So I'm assuming addressing > > > developers directly is not too effective either. > > > Two other options I see are to debug/fix it by myself and try to stimulate others monetarily. First option isn't really affordable for me , > > > so I'm trying to research second. > > > > Bug reports certainly are effective, but if no one else can reproduce > > your problem then obviously it can't be fixed. > > That's not a good attitude IMO. I'd bet that Linus and Andrew have fixed > lots of bugs that they couldn't reproduce.
It makes sense for not-yet-mature stuff like ipw.... -- Thanks, Sharp! - 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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