Re: Linux 2.6.13

[Nigel Cunningham]

Hi.

On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 22:25, Jörn Engel wrote:
> On Mon, 29 August 2005 22:17:30 +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 20:57, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 17:17 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Paul Mackerras:
> > > >   Remove race between con_open and con_close
> > > 
> > > Hey, I'm the first to report this with the fix and Paul gets the credit?
> > > I guess I'll crawl back to my little world (RT) where they actually
> > > appreciate me. :-(
> > 
> > Did you report it or fix it? :>
> 
> Doesn't really matter to me.  A good bug report is often 90% of the
> work, with the actual fix falling into the misc. category.  Testers
> really deserve some credit.  ;)
> 
> Ok, many bug reports are also quite useless.  Good testers therefore
> deserve even more credit.

That's true. A bug report that tells me exactly what I need to do to
reproduce the issue is better than gold.

Regards,

Nigel

> Jörn
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