[RFC PATCH v2 17/26] docs: reporting-bugs: explain options if reproducing on mainline fails

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Explicitly lay out the remaining options if the user can't reproduce the
issue with a mainline kernel. Especially send those that are interested
in seeing it fixed in stable and longterm kernels to a section dedicated
to it (added in a later patch), as the process would get hard to follow
if all of it was explained here; especially as there is a back reference
to this process for regressions that are specific to stable and longterm
and were never present in mainline.

Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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 Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-bugs.rst | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-bugs.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-bugs.rst
index e9fe40a96b87..60a84f52724c 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-bugs.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-bugs.rst
@@ -803,6 +803,23 @@ eliminate the reason for it before you reporting issues that occur with it. See
 the section above for details how to do that.
 
 
+Reproduce issue with the fresh kernel
+-------------------------------------
+
+    *Reproduce the issue with the kernel you just installed. If it doesn't show
+    up there, head over to the instructions for issues only happening with
+    stable and longterm kernels.*
+
+Check if the issue occurs with the fresh Linux kernel version you just
+installed. If it was fixed there already, consider sticking with this version
+line and abandoning your plan to report the issue. But keep in mind that other
+users might still be plagued by it, as long as it's not fixed in either stable
+and longterm version from kernel.org (and thus vendor kernels derived from
+those). If you prefer to use one of those or just want to help their users,
+head over to the section "Details about reporting issues only occurring in
+older kernel version lines" below.
+
+
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