Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] Fixing the Kernel Janitors project | Date | Mon, 2 Jun 2008 12:43:33 +0200 |
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On Monday, 2 of June 2008, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Thu, 29 May 2008, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > > > - fixing random bugs from kernel bugzilla is boring (spending 10 hours > > > looking for missing '=' doesn't really attract them) > > Perhaps you could try making the process of finding a kernel bug seem > > more exciting? I doubt that most kernel bugs are a simple as a missing =. > > Indeed. Large amount of kernel bugs is 'kernel doesn't work on this > hardware setup X, other hardware setups are not affected". That doesn't > sound too sexy either, unless you are unfortunate enough to have the piece > of hardware in question, of course.
Well, if you test linux-next or -mm on a regular basis, you are almost guaranteed to encounter a bug that manifests itself on your hardware, sooner or later. :-)
Thanks, Rafael
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