Re: [RFC 4/7] Docs: Add info on supported kernels toREPORTING-BUGS.

[Rob Landley]

On 04/15/2013 12:33:33 PM, Sarah Sharp wrote:
> One of the most common frustrations maintainers have with bug  
> reporters
> is the email that starts with "I have a two year old kernel from an
> embedded vendor with some random drivers and fixes thrown in, and it's
> crashing".
>
> Be specific about what kernel versions the upstream maintainers will  
> fix
> bugs in, and direct bug reporters to their Linux distribution or
> embedded vendor if the bug is in an unsupported kernel.

Back in 2006 I wrote a section of the BusyBox FAQ about this:

http://git.busybox.net/busybox/tree/docs/busybox.net/FAQ.html?id=95718b3091690f1293e3069da75d0d4be2665d0e#n359

(Alas, the current version of that page had a large project specific  
chunk dumped into the middle of it, but the text I linked to out of the  
repo is reasonably generic to just about any project. Feel free to lift  
anything that's useful. :)

Rob--
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