Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Nov 2002 00:23:28 -0800 (PST) | From | "Craig I. Hagan" <> | Subject | Re: What's left over. |
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> Talk is cheap. > > I've not seen a _single_ bug-report with a fix that attributed the > existing LKCD patches. I might be more impressed if I had. > > The basic issue is that we don't put patches in in the hope that they will > prove themselves later. Your argument is fundamentally flawed.
comment from userspace:
I'm going to have to side with Linus here despite my desire to see LKCD merged. However, we need to show him the money. This means:
* making sure that the patches are kept up to date
* keep the LKCD patches in the list/community spotlight in a positive manner ("please test this!", or "please use this when looking for help debugging a system problem"). Perhaps a 2.5.x-lkcd bk tree or something like that.
* make documentation/HOWTO's available for folks so that they'll know how to generate a crashdump and run a some utilities against it to generate a synopsis which can be submitted for debugging
* most important: squash a whole lot of bugs with said dumps!
If it becomes apparent through empirical data that crash dumps are a useful tool, I'm sure that Linus will become far more amenable. Until then, lets let him handle all of his other work which needs to get done.
-- craig
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