Re: TUNER_TDA8290=y, VIDEO_DEV=n build error

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Sunday, 6 of April 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 11:37:40AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Friday, 4 of April 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 01:20:32AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > > The following report is on the current list of known regressions
> > > > from 2.6.24.  Please verify if the issue is still present in the
> > > > mainline.
> > > 
> > > When you asked me just 2 days ago exactly the same question in the 
> > > Bugzilla entry I immediately confirmed it's still present.
> > > 
> > > Was anything wrong with my answer (and the subsequent discussions) that 
> > > you now also ask Toralf for confirmation?
> > 
> > This text is automatically added to the messages sent in replies to the main
> > report.
> > 
> > Well, it probably could be better.  I'm open for suggestions. :-)
> 
> First of all you try to get the tracking of all bugs into Bugzilla, and 
> now you've sent a batch of emails where the answers will not get into 
> Bugzilla automatically.

So?

> As an example, for the bug we are talking about the main value of you 
> asking me in Bugzilla was not that I confirmed it's still present, the 
> main value was that this caused Mauro to make a fix. What would have 
> happened if Toralf had answered in an email that the bug is still 
> present?

Most probably, I would add a reference to his reply to the bugzilla entry.

> And especially for trickier stuff like suspend/resume problems it might 
> also make sense to send the email to all people who might possibly be 
> involved with the bug - even if this means putting all email addresses 
> from 5 MAINTAINERS entries into one email. It takes a bit more time when 
> writing the emails, but my experience was it's worth it.

Yes, I'm going to do that in the future.

Thanks,
Rafael
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