Re: Reporting driver bugs.

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 20:45:05 -0400
Jeff Garzik <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > Hi everyone.
> > 
> > I've been involved in a little discussion this morning about reporting
> > driver bugs. In the past, I've tended to point people directly to the
> > driver author, but I've learnt that the preferred thing is to get people
> > to open reports on bugzilla.kernel.org.
> > 
> > I'm therefore writing to ask if those of you who help with triage could
> > point people there as well.
> 
> Unfortunately there is no one right answer.  Some driver maintainers 
> don't see the bugzilla.kernel.org entry at all; others find it useful 
> for tracking purposes.
> 
> At the very least, one should make sure the driver author is always CC'd 
> on initial bug reports.
> 

I screen all bugzilla reports and ensure that each one gets to the appropriate developer, if there is one.
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