Messages in this thread | | | From | "Albert D. Cahalan" <> | Subject | Re: bug database braindump from the kernel summit | Date | Sun, 1 Apr 2001 16:38:01 -0400 (EDT) |
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Gregory Maxwell writes: > On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 03:43:52PM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
>> I'm really sick of being buried in useless information. The signal >> gets lost in the noise. It is easy to discard automatically generated >> bug reports, and way too annoying to wade through the crud. >> >> When network connections hang, the console-tools package version >> isn't likely to be of any use. When ramfs leaks memory, nobody needs >> the content of /proc/pci. >> >> Sometimes the bit of crud are HUGE. Imagine the hardware info >> for a 64-way SGI or Sun box with plenty of devices attached. > > Disk space is 'free'.
Disk space isn't the issue. Just a few days ago I tried to help somebody who posted one of the bloated fill-in-the-form bug reports. I gave him a useless answer, because I didn't see amid all the junk that he had no problems with a 2.2.xx kernel. The good information had been buried in fluff.
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