linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] docs: process/howto.rst: make sections on bug reporting match practice

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Message-ID: <20210118123156.02f8ca28@lwn.net>
Date:   Mon, 18 Jan 2021 12:31:56 -0700
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@...mhuis.info>
Cc:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: process/howto.rst: make sections on bug reporting
 match practice

On Sat, 16 Jan 2021 15:35:42 +0100
Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@...mhuis.info> wrote:

> The file Documentation/process/howto.rst points to bugzilla.kernel.org
> as the primary place to report kernel bugs to. For most of the kernel
> that's the wrong place, as the MAINTAINERS file shows. Adjust those
> sections to make them match current practice.
> 
> This change also removes a contradiction with the recently added text
> Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst, which is a reason for a
> 'this needs further discussion' warning note in there. The change is
> thus a prerequisite to remove that warning, nevertheless it is left for
> now to make sure people review the text's approach more carefully.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@...mhuis.info>

Applied, thanks.

jon