Re: [1/5] reporting-issues: header and TLDR

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 04:44:21PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > FWIW, on another channel someone mentioned the process in the TLDR is
> > quite complicated when it comes to regressions in stable and longterm
> > kernels. I looked at the text and it seemed like a valid complaint, esp.
> > as those regressions are something we really care about.
> >
> > To solve this properly I sadly had to shake up the text in this section
> > completely and rewrite parts of it. Find the result below. I'm quite
> > happy with it, as it afaics is more straight forward and easier to
> > understand. And it matches the step-by-step guide better. And the best
> > thing: it's a bit shorter than the old TLDR.
> 
> I think this is much improved - concise is good! :)  I really just have
> one little comment...
> 
> > I'll wait a day or two and then will send it through the regular review
> > together with a few small other fixes that piled up for the text, just
> > wanted to add it here for completeness.
> >
> > ---
> > The short guide (aka TL;DR)
> > ===========================
> >
> > Are you facing a regression with vanilla kernels from the same stable or
> > longterm series? One still supported? Then search the `LKML
> > <https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/>`_ and the `Linux stable mailing list
> > <https://lore.kernel.org/stable/>_` archives for matching reports to
> > join. If you don't find any, install `the latest release from that
> > series <https://kernel.org/>`_. If it still shows the issue, report it
> > to the stable mailing list and the stable maintainers.
> 
> If we really want this to be a short guide that gets people to the
> answer quickly, we might as well put the addresses to report to right
> here rather than making people search for them.

"stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" is good to use here, no need to also cc: any
individuals for this type of thing.

thanks,

greg k-h