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DateMon, 30 Apr 2007 08:09:13 +0200
FromTomasz Chmielewski <>
SubjectRe: Linux 2.6.21
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

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