From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-11.6 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_PATCH, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECF40C4727E for ; Sun, 4 Oct 2020 04:03:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8F84206DB for ; Sun, 4 Oct 2020 04:03:25 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b="Jcu826RB" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1725840AbgJDEDY (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Oct 2020 00:03:24 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:33452 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725819AbgJDEDW (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Oct 2020 00:03:22 -0400 Received: from merlin.infradead.org (merlin.infradead.org [IPv6:2001:8b0:10b:1231::1]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A3333C0613CE; Sat, 3 Oct 2020 21:03:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=merlin.20170209; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type: In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Date:Message-ID:References:Cc:To:Subject:From:Sender :Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=uKa66ETGBRVskV1YBqgXWXxLBGG5d7Kkd2GNGl5nYaQ=; b=Jcu826RBxpEVXCXTJoxurPCm+F 5y7+ayIjDSlK1QTo27Svu6cR30MVHY6/b6Q9yGoRUmxL+bY10SjqCE62M1HBbhwqGe3VqkE463/Ue XuiHZSfPAsPGdM7KKCaSyyn/rtcqN6wQXX+xkurQxBc46IyKU4BSR/iqp7NESlW+9ItlbhXxFR3vf ZBxqRw0rTOw5xj6VAgYV05qf4oPWPTYB9/Dsgq1S4HZoYCvPuMK+49thiqOZXDgXllH7zYGgu4j/s UfYz5mfTdy+x7NiFmTN2DXdIecNmN/uRv0+A9WF49AZYx+ugRugUOUNYHZ5z1yOSPeEVTK/GYThBS 25mdahdw==; Received: from [2601:1c0:6280:3f0::2c9a] by merlin.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.92.3 #3 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1kOvF2-00058y-IY; Sun, 04 Oct 2020 04:03:20 +0000 From: Randy Dunlap Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 25/26] docs: reporting-bugs: explain things could be easier To: Thorsten Leemhuis , Jonathan Corbet Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <42d0e4956abf7ea2b0ea15f56afb1720a11739f1.1601541165.git.linux@leemhuis.info> Message-ID: <97280e05-054f-043d-9d2a-4944611640bc@infradead.org> Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2020 21:03:17 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.12.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <42d0e4956abf7ea2b0ea15f56afb1720a11739f1.1601541165.git.linux@leemhuis.info> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10/1/20 1:50 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > A few closing words to explain why things are like this until someone > steps up to make things easier for people. > > Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis > --- > Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-bugs.rst | 9 +++++++++ > 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-bugs.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-bugs.rst > index 8f60af27635b..42f59419263a 100644 > --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-bugs.rst > +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-bugs.rst > @@ -1458,6 +1458,15 @@ But don't worry too much about all of this, a lot of drivers have active > maintainers who are quite interested in fixing as many issues as possible. > > > +Closing words > +============= > + > +Compared with other Free/Libre & Open Source Software it's hard to reporting to report > +issues to the Linux kernel developers: the length and complexity of this > +document and the implications between the lines illustrate that. But that's how > +it is for now. The main author of this text hopes documenting the state of the > +art will lay some groundwork to improve the situation over time. > + > .. ############################################################################ > .. Temporary marker added while this document is rewritten. Sections above > .. are new and dual-licensed under GPLv2+ and CC-BY 4.0, those below are old. > -- ~Randy