linux-kernel - Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] Fixing the Kernel Janitors project

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Message-Id: <200806021243.33976.rjw@sisk.pl>
Date:	Mon, 2 Jun 2008 12:43:33 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
Cc:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
	ksummit-2008-discuss@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	penberg@...helsinki.fi, dwmw2@...radead.org,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] Fixing the Kernel Janitors project

On Monday, 2 of June 2008, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Thu, 29 May 2008, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 
> > > - fixing random bugs from kernel bugzilla is boring (spending 10 hours 
> > >   looking for missing '=' doesn't really attract them)
> > Perhaps you could try making the process of finding a kernel bug seem
> > more exciting?  I doubt that most kernel bugs are a simple as a missing =.
> 
> Indeed. Large amount of kernel bugs is 'kernel doesn't work on this 
> hardware setup X, other hardware setups are not affected". That doesn't 
> sound too sexy either, unless you are unfortunate enough to have the piece 
> of hardware in question, of course.

Well, if you test linux-next or -mm on a regular basis, you are almost
guaranteed to encounter a bug that manifests itself on your hardware, sooner
or later. :-)

Thanks,
Rafael
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