Re: Linux 2.6.21

From: Tomasz Chmielewski
Date: Sat Apr 28 2007 - 17:04:23 EST


Adrian Bunk wrote:

I do hereby promise you to manually ask the submitters of all 1600 open bugs in the kernel Bugzilla within one month whether their problem is still present with 2.6.21 and forwarding all bugs if the answer was "yes" to whoever is the right recipient if you promise me that all bugs where the submitter said "yes" will be debugged by a kernel developer who knows the corresponding subsystem. [4]

Hmm.
I reported a bug on 2006-08-07 ("ISDN/hisax doesn't work on ARM architecture"):

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6970


There was not much activity there... and the bug is still opened in kernel's bugzilla.


However, I received two emails from Andrew Morton on 02.10.2006 - one with a patch, and the second (automated?) which said:

The patch titled

isdn: work around excessive udelay()

has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename is

isdn-work-around-excessive-udelay.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree


I'm very happy that the bug was fixed, but why wasn't it automatically closed in bugzilla (I closed it only today as I looked up into bugzilla)?

Do we have some wrong communication here? How many bugs are there that are falsely opened, when in reality they were resolved long ago?


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Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org
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