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Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:24:13 -0500 From: Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net> To: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@...ux.intel.com> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC 4/7] Docs: Add info on supported kernels to REPORTING-BUGS. On 04/15/2013 12:33:33 PM, Sarah Sharp wrote: > One of the most common frustrations maintainers have with bug > reporters > is the email that starts with "I have a two year old kernel from an > embedded vendor with some random drivers and fixes thrown in, and it's > crashing". > > Be specific about what kernel versions the upstream maintainers will > fix > bugs in, and direct bug reporters to their Linux distribution or > embedded vendor if the bug is in an unsupported kernel. Back in 2006 I wrote a section of the BusyBox FAQ about this: http://git.busybox.net/busybox/tree/docs/busybox.net/FAQ.html?id=95718b3091690f1293e3069da75d0d4be2665d0e#n359 (Alas, the current version of that page had a large project specific chunk dumped into the middle of it, but the text I linked to out of the repo is reasonably generic to just about any project. Feel free to lift anything that's useful. :) Rob-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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