Re: How to improve the quality of the kernel?

[Martin Bligh <mbligh@mbligh.org>]

> > > Maybe searching free text fields can then be implemented.  Then every
> > > message exchange in bugzilla can be used for extracting such info -
> > > questions about HW specifics are asked a lot, almost in every one.
> > > It's a shame we cant' use this information. I was once searching for
> > > "VIA" and got "zero bugs found", but in reality there are hundreds!
> > > Probably something that makes sense to bring up with bugzilla project?
> >
> > That should work now ... seems to for me.
> >
> > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&long_desc_type=substring&long_desc=VIA&kernel_version_type=allwordssubstr&kernel_version=&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=REJECTED&bug_status=DEFERRED&bug_status=NEEDINFO&bug_status=CLOSED&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailcc2=1&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&regression=both&cmdtype=doit&order=Bug+Number&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0= 
> >
> >
> > Produces a metric-buttload of results. Go to the advanced search option
> > and do "A Comment" contains the string "VIA". By default "Status" is
> > only set to do open bugs, which you might want to change to all types.
>
> Yes it works great! Thanks... I'd say this should be really a default
> search, because first search screen is misleading - it promises find
> all for any "words" :)

OK, or at the very least we can fix the text at least to indicate it'll
only search summaries (and likely only of open bugs at that ...)

M.
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