Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Content of Kernel mailing list | From | <> | Date | Thu, 9 Jan 1997 13:05:31 -0500 (GMT) |
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> > debugging. Anything that discourages people from reporting bugs, or > > making suggestions, is not taken well. > > I am not suggesting that people do not report bugs, but rather > read the list before blind posting something which has been posted there > 50 times previously... perhaps I should have explained in a bit more > detail.
I've discovered/reported/fixed a handful of kernel bugs in my time. I absolutely refuse, at 1am, after I've just found something funky, to go scan my mail queue before I send the report. If you are complaining now, you should have been around when all the 1.3.x users were whining about "broken flock emulation" or "ps aux floating point error"
> That is what I had hoped to avoid, I joined this list in the hopes the > majority of the posts would be the discussion of the implementation of > new hardware drivers, software ideas and protocols, I did not realize that > the majority of the discussion was "Please help me fix this", I admit to > being a bit brash in my comments, but I still believe that most had > understood that I was pleeding that one reads their current Inbox to see > if someone else has already posted this before creating a duplicate entry.
Heh, my inbox lags about a day behind the list activity, sometimes worse on our little overworked 256k link to commercial net here on base.
Melvin Smith
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