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Date:	Sat, 12 May 2007 13:15:30 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
Cc:	"John Anthony Kazos Jr." <jakj@...-k-j.com>,
	Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>, randy.dunlap@...cle.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, rpjday@...dspring.com,
	marcel@...tmann.org, hch@...radead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] module_author: don't advice putting in an email address

> > I'd prefer not. I get reports from people about drivers that got "lost"
> > by vendors, regularly. Nor am I pointing fingers at specific vendors here,
> > last month I sorted out a two year old "lost in Red Hat Bugzilla" kernel
> > bug for example.
> 
> How many maintainers want to get bug reports against the kernel 2.6.9 
> shipped with RHEL 4?

The enterprise kernels which tend to be the ones with the long lag also
have a userbase with support contracts so tend not to consider l/k as
their first support stop anyway.

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