Re: Reporting Kernel Bugs

[David Rientjes]

On Fri, 14 Oct 2011, Jan Steinke wrote:

> > Just send an e-mail to appropriate mailinglist and CC 
> > responsible maintainer(s).
> > 
> > That's what many people prefer to bugzilla anyway.
> > 
> 
> How do I know the responsible maintainer(s)? How do I know if the bug is 
> confirmed or accepted?
> 

If you can figure out what subsystem is the likely source of the issue, 
then you can check the MAINTAINERS file for the appropriate people and 
mailing list.  If there's a panic or oops, find the source file that is to 
blame and use ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f <file>.  Otherwise, just 
report some unknown, untriaged error directly to 
linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and be sure to cc Andrew Morton 
<akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> who used to go through the kernel.org bugzilla 
quite often and send bug reports in the right direction.
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