Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:48:56 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.31 regression: system hang after pptp connection established |
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On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 11:59:13PM +0400, Peter Volkov wrote: > > Is this problem known? > Yes, it's described at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14179 > since Tuesday. > > On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 07:16:39AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > The patch fixes the problem here. Thank you very much. > > Hey, thank _you_ for the sysrq output, that made it quite debuggable. > > Committed as 202c4675c, and I cc'd stable. > Thanks for the fix, but should I send bugreports directly here next time > instead of filing a bug in bugzilla.kernel.org and waiting for response > that will never come?
Bugzilla is great, but you should _also_ target the maintainers directly and let them know. And especially if you have bisected things, always cc everybody that is listed in the commit.
Otherwise, what happens is that other people not directly involved will eventually look at the regression list, and see it - but that generally happens much later. So things will get fixed from just the bugzilla report too, but you'll have a much longer latency than required.
In fact, if you can bisect it to a single commit (especially a small one like this), then bugzilla is the secondary, rather than the primary place. Bugzilla is great for keeping track of things and trying to avoid losing reports, but that comes at the expense of not being very convenient for short-term stuff.
So if you have a very targeted bugreport, and know who to send a report to, try the direct route first. Then, if nothing happens immediately, open a bugzilla (or open the bugzilla immediately, just in case, but see it as a "fallback" thing).
Linus
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