Re: pull request: wireless-2.6 2008-11-18

[Marcel Holtmann]

Hi Yi,

> > http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1703
> >
> > and just relying on Bugzilla is not gonna be good enough. The Linux
> > kernel development has always been done via mailing lists. And while
> > there is a kernel and other Bugzillas, the main authority is still  
> > the
> > mailing list. So if you wanna get massive feedback or have testing
> > patches for debugging, then these need to be posted to linux-wireless
> > and not "hidden" into a Bugzilla.
>
> This is generally true for bugs easy to debug with. But in this  
> example,
> the first reporter opened this bug 4 months ago. People usually don't
> follow thread for such a long time. There are also some reporters  
> never
> show up in this ML.

true to some degree, but searching mailing list archives is a lot  
simpler then bug reports.

> > I do have a perfect environment in Vancouver that allows me to  
> > trigger
> > this behavior within a few minutes. So if you really wanna debug  
> > this,
> > then just send debug patches to the mailing list and I am happy to  
> > run
> > such kernels.
>
> Can you still reproduce this bug with Johannes' patch?

we will see once I am back in Vancouver. Will be some time in December  
though.

Regards

Marcel

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