Jörn Engel wrote:.. Most of the regressions we have are easily identifiable and not of the type where there could "50 other people" touching the relevant code. As a developer (and former subsystem maintainer) I look hard at my own code when there's a bug reported that could have come from recent updates there. Usually there are not that many updates to consider, and tracking it down is just a matter of being willing to do so. Of late, I've given up on other developers fixing the stuff they break on my own machines, and I generally just dive into totally unfamiliar code, and find and fix it myself. Quite quickly, usually. And the bugs are often very apparent just from looking at the source code diffs (patches) from recent history in the code that's not working. This is not rocket science, and it doesn't require a log2 download/rebuild/reboot process. But yes, there are more difficult ones, like when my machine crashed yesterday with some form of corruption showing up during JBD filesystem I/O. That's one where the problem isn't going to be obvious to anyone, and I don't actually expect anyone to go looking for it right away. If more such events happen, then it will get more attention. But things like broken drivers, in almost every case those are trivial to track down and fix, even for people not familar with that specific code. .. Nobody's blaming anyone here. I'm just asking that developers here do more like our Top Penguin does, and actually look at problems and try to understand them and suggest fixes to try. And not rely solely on the git-bisect crutch. It's a good crutch, provided the reporter is a kernel developer, or has a lot of time on their hands. But we debugged Linux here for a long time without it. And I already volunteer my time here, thanks, BIG TIME, since 1992 or so. Cheers - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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