Re: New (now current development process)

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
>  That's fine if you have the hardware to be able to debug these issues.

Most driver bugs cannot be reproduced by the developer.  Almost by
definition: if the patch had caused problems on the developer's machine, he
wouldn't have shipped it.

This is why we have this wonderful group of long-suffering people who
download and test development kernels for us, and who take the time to
report defects.

Yes, it's painful to get into a long-range debugging session, sending debug
patches, twelve-hour turnaround, etc.  But what alternative have we?
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