Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:18:13 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: Reporting bugs and bisection (was: Re: 2.6.25-rc8: FTP transfer errors) |
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* Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> We dont' do that as much nowadays - there's a tendency to > > a) throw the problem back at the reporter, often asking them to > bisect. If the reporter is running a distro kernel (eg: Fedora) > then that's quite hard, and often isn't a think they have knowledge > to do. So they'll just disappear. Or > > b) just ignore the report altogether.
hm, who does this - i've seen networking folks do it but does anyone else do it? Such cases are _clear_ abuse of users and they'll do the obvious thing: vote with their feet.
I only ask people to bisect it when all other avenues fail - and even then i try to make it clear that bisection is just something they can _optionally_ do to speed things up (it's never required), and that it's a pure opt-in.
doing _kernel_ bisection is totally hard at the moment - it disrupts the user way too much and causes many hours of work for most users. [ Requiring bisection for userspace projects might be more doable. (but even there's it's wrong when it's not automated completely and where a failure pattern is not deterministic.) ]
Ingo
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