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Subject[RFC PATCH v1 25/26] docs: reporting-bugs: explain things could be easier
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A few closing words to explain why things are like this until someone
steps up to make things easier for people.

Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
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Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-bugs.rst | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-bugs.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-bugs.rst
index 8f60af27635b..42f59419263a 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-bugs.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-bugs.rst
@@ -1458,6 +1458,15 @@ But don't worry too much about all of this, a lot of drivers have active
maintainers who are quite interested in fixing as many issues as possible.


+Closing words
+=============
+
+Compared with other Free/Libre & Open Source Software it's hard to reporting
+issues to the Linux kernel developers: the length and complexity of this
+document and the implications between the lines illustrate that. But that's how
+it is for now. The main author of this text hopes documenting the state of the
+art will lay some groundwork to improve the situation over time.
+
.. ############################################################################
.. Temporary marker added while this document is rewritten. Sections above
.. are new and dual-licensed under GPLv2+ and CC-BY 4.0, those below are old.
--
2.26.2
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