Re: MODULE_MAINTAINER

[Adrian Bunk]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 09:44:27AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>...
> > IMHO the default should be that users report problems with distribution 
> > kernels to their distribution and problems with ftp.kernel.org kernels 
> > to either linux-kernel or the kernel Bugzilla.
> 
> s/linux-kernel/the appropriate mailing list/ please :)
>...

Yes, in an ideal world.

But a user reporting an Oops might not even know where the problem lies.

And a user reporting a networking bug to linux-kernel hasn't really done 
any mistake. Forwarding bugs to the right people (as Andrew does and I'm 
sometimes doing) is actually an easy part of bug handling.

> ~Randy

cu
Adrian

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