linux-kernel - Re: Top 10 bugs/warnings for the week of March 23rd, 2008

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Message-ID: <20080526093609.GF13529@elte.hu>
Date:	Mon, 26 May 2008 11:36:09 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Top 10 bugs/warnings for the week of March 23rd, 2008


* Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com> wrote:

>> At any rate, they have a bug in their proprietary module (news at 
>> 11).
>>
>> So, I don't think this should make the top ten.  Do you have a way to 
>> sort tainted vs non-tainted, and only produce the top ten for 
>> untainted?
>
> yes absolutely; this is a question I'll have for the customers of the 
> data... do people want to see "only-tainted" in these top 10s? Right 
> now I mark them as such but leave them in. It's trivial for me to just 
> leave them out instead (the info is there, just a matter of not 
> counting)

i think they should be included, but perhaps abbreviated [into 1-2 
lines] so that they do not hold us up.

We must not whitewash our bug statistics by intentionally excluding the 
harm that bin-only modules do to our users - but we can make them less 
visually intrusive, so that we can work on fixing the bugs we can fix.

Perhaps make sure it's top 10 of _our_ bugs, with the bin-only data 
mixed in as well (in a visually unintrusive way) to make the picture 
complete. I.e. list 20 bugs if 10 of them are bin-only modules.

	Ingo
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