Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:41:38 -0700 | From | Martin Bligh <> | Subject | Re: How to improve the quality of the kernel? |
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>> > 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.
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