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SubjectRe: How to improve the quality of the kernel?
>> > So if you make changes to random-driver.c you can do `git-log
>> > random-driver.c|grep Tested-by" to find people who can test
>> > your changes for you.
>>
>> You would'nt even need to search in GIT. Maybie even when ever a
>> patchset is being proposed a mail could be sent to appropriate
>> hardware/or feature pseudo-auto-generated mailing-list?
>>
>> On lkml I mostly try to follow patches/bugs associated with hardware I
>> use. Why not try to automate the process and get more testers in?
>>
>
> I think this is an excellent point. One data point could be a field in
> bugzilla to input the hardware information. Simple query can select
> common hardware and platform. So far it's not working when hardware is
> just mentioned in the text part.

if it's free text it'll be useless for search ... I suppose we could
do drop-downs for architecture at least? Not sure much beyond that
would work ... *possibly* the common drivers, but I don't think
we'd get enough coverage for it to be of use.

M.
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