Reporting bugs (was Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1)

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Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> There are just about 9000 bugs in the kernel bugtracker and about 150000 
> bugs in the KDE bugtracker. Granted KDE bugtracker includes a lot of 
> applications, but still I think the number of bug reports in the kernel 
> bugtracker is ridicolously low. And I think thats because many users 
> don't bother to report bugs upstream for the Linux kernel, not because 
> that those bugs aren't there.
> 
> I hope that the ck mailing list community will continue to be active and 
> possibly try to get swap prefetch and some other goodies of the ck 
> patchset into mainline. And I think it would also be a good idea for ck 
> mailing list community to report desktop related issues in the kernel 
> bugtracker. I think I will take the courage next time I find anything, 
> and report it straight there.

A word of caution about bugzilla.kernel.org, to those who don't know
already:  By far not all maintainers and developers use bugzilla.
I don't know for which subsystems it makes sense to file a report in
bugzilla.  I think your best bet is to report at the mailinglists
listed in linux/MAINTAINERS.
-- 
Stefan Richter
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