Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] docs: reporting-issues: make people CC the regressions list

From: Greg KH
Date: Fri Apr 09 2021 - 09:09:54 EST


On Fri, Apr 09, 2021 at 01:47:24PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Make people CC the recently created mailing list dedicated to Linux
> kernel regressions when reporting one. Some paragraphs had to be
> reshuffled and slightly rewritten during the process, as the text
> otherwise would have gotten unnecessarily hard to follow.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> v1->v2
> * drop the bits that a would help a automatic tracking solution
>
> FWIW, a quick reminder about something I wrote in v1, but nobody said
> anything about it: now that we have a mailing list for regressions I was
> inclined to remove the "Make the report's subject start with
> '[REGRESSION]'" part from the text. But in the end I left it, to make it
> obvious on other lists that the mail is about a regression.
> Nevertheless, I'm still wondering if it should be toned down a bit, as
> it might be enough if the subject starts with "regression:" or contains
> the word somewhere.

Let's see if anyone notices about [REGRESSION] or not, it can evolve
over time :)

thanks,

greg k-h