Re: Reporting Kernel Bugs

From: Maciej Rutecki
Date: Sat Oct 15 2011 - 08:08:53 EST


On piÄtek, 14 paÅdziernika 2011 o 22:23:57 David Rientjes wrote:
> 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.

For regression add my address to CC. When bugzilla comes back, then I create
bug entry for regression.

Regards
--
Maciej Rutecki
http://www.mrutecki.pl
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