linux-kernel - Re: How to improve the quality of the kernel?

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Date:	Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:41:38 -0700
From:	Martin Bligh <mbligh@...igh.org>
To:	Natalie Protasevich <protasnb@...il.com>
Cc:	"Fortier,Vincent [Montreal]" <Vincent.Fortier1@...gc.ca>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>,
	Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@...il.com>,
	Oleg Verych <olecom@...wer.upol.cz>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Diego Calleja <diegocg@...il.com>,
	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How to improve the quality of the kernel?

>> > So if you make changes to random-driver.c you can do `git-log
>> > random-driver.c|grep Tested-by" to find people who can test
>> > your changes for you.
>>
>> You would'nt even need to search in GIT.  Maybie even when ever a
>> patchset is being proposed a mail could be sent to appropriate
>> hardware/or feature pseudo-auto-generated mailing-list?
>>
>> On lkml I mostly try to follow patches/bugs associated with hardware I
>> use.  Why not try to automate the process and get more testers in?
>>
> 
> I think this is an excellent point. One data point could be a field in
> bugzilla to input the hardware information. Simple query can select
> common hardware and platform. So far it's not working when hardware is
> just mentioned in the text part.

if it's free text it'll be useless for search ... I suppose we could
do drop-downs for architecture at least? Not sure much beyond that
would work ... *possibly* the common drivers, but I don't think
we'd get enough coverage for it to be of use.

M.
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