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From: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>,
	KVM list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	virtualization <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	Netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	mie@igel.co.jp
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] virtio: last minute fixup
Date: Wed, 11 May 2022 10:35:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA93jw50TyLohZRQNkGf+LKSfzPykh9XcbYb8FCN5hmEd4Pc4g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wgAk3NEJ2PHtb0jXzCUOGytiHLq=rzjkFKfpiuH-SROgA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 2:54 AM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> but what *is* interesting, and where the "Link:" line is very useful,
> is finding where the original problem that *caused* that patch to be
> posted in the first place.

More generally, inside and outside the linux universe, a search engine
that searched for all the *closed bugs* and their symptoms, in the
world would often be helpful. There is such a long deployment tail and
in modern bug trackers the closed bugs tend to vanish, even though the
problem might still exist in the field for another decade or more.


-- 
FQ World Domination pending: https://blog.cerowrt.org/post/state_of_fq_codel/
Dave Täht CEO, TekLibre, LLC

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-05-11 17:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-10 12:23 [GIT PULL] virtio: last minute fixup Michael S. Tsirkin
2022-05-10 18:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2022-05-10 23:12   ` Nathan Chancellor
2022-05-10 23:50     ` Linus Torvalds
2022-05-11  7:13       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2022-05-11 12:51       ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2022-05-11 13:40         ` Michael Ellerman
2022-05-11 16:31           ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2022-05-12  2:07             ` Theodore Ts'o
2022-05-11 17:35       ` Dave Taht [this message]
2022-05-11  6:22   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2022-05-11 10:12   ` Michael Ellerman
2022-05-11 16:20     ` Linus Torvalds
2022-05-12 13:30       ` Michael Ellerman
2022-05-12 17:10         ` Linus Torvalds
2022-05-12 17:19           ` Linus Torvalds
2022-05-13 14:14             ` Eric W. Biederman
2022-05-13 17:00               ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-05-16  9:03           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2022-05-11 12:24   ` Jörg Rödel
2022-05-13 12:16     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2022-05-10 18:31 ` pr-tracker-bot

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