linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] virtio: last minute fixup

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Date:   Wed, 11 May 2022 10:35:54 -0700
From:   Dave Taht <dave.taht@...il.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@...uxfoundation.org>,
        KVM list <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        virtualization <virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        mie@...l.co.jp
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] virtio: last minute fixup

On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 2:54 AM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> but what *is* interesting, and where the "Link:" line is very useful,
> is finding where the original problem that *caused* that patch to be
> posted in the first place.

More generally, inside and outside the linux universe, a search engine
that searched for all the *closed bugs* and their symptoms, in the
world would often be helpful. There is such a long deployment tail and
in modern bug trackers the closed bugs tend to vanish, even though the
problem might still exist in the field for another decade or more.

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