From: Craig I. H. <ha...@ci...> - 2002-11-01 08:28:51
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> Talk is cheap. > > I've not seen a _single_ bug-report with a fix that attributed the > existing LKCD patches. I might be more impressed if I had. > > The basic issue is that we don't put patches in in the hope that they will > prove themselves later. Your argument is fundamentally flawed. comment from userspace: I'm going to have to side with Linus here despite my desire to see LKCD merged. However, we need to show him the money. This means: * making sure that the patches are kept up to date * keep the LKCD patches in the list/community spotlight in a positive manner ("please test this!", or "please use this when looking for help debugging a system problem"). Perhaps a 2.5.x-lkcd bk tree or something like that. * make documentation/HOWTO's available for folks so that they'll know how to generate a crashdump and run a some utilities against it to generate a synopsis which can be submitted for debugging * most important: squash a whole lot of bugs with said dumps! If it becomes apparent through empirical data that crash dumps are a useful tool, I'm sure that Linus will become far more amenable. Until then, lets let him handle all of his other work which needs to get done. -- craig .- ... . -.-. .-. . - -- . ... ... .- --. . Craig I. Hagan hagan(at)cih.com |