Re: Planned changes for bugzilla.kernel.org to reduce the "Bugzilla blues"

From: Artem S. Tashkinov
Date: Sat Oct 01 2022 - 06:48:12 EST




On 10/1/22 10:39, Greg KH wrote:
On Sat, Oct 01, 2022 at 10:30:22AM +0000, Artem S. Tashkinov wrote:
Here are two other issues which absolutely suck in terms of dealing with
the kernel.

- 1 -

I have a 20+ years experience in IT and some kernel issues are just
baffling in terms of trying to understand what to do about them.

Here's an example: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216274

What should I do about that? Who's responsible for this? Who should I CC?

Input subsystem.

It's great you've replied immediately, what about hundreds or even
thousands of other bug reports where people have no clue who has to be
CC'ed?


Here's what I'm getting with Linux 5.19.12:

platform wdat_wdt: failed to claim resource 5: [mem
0x00000000-0xffffffff7fffffff]

$ find . | grep wdat_wdt
./drivers/watchdog/wdat_wdt.c
$ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --file ./drivers/watchdog/wdat_wdt.c
Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (maintainer:WATCHDOG DEVICE DRIVERS)
Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> (maintainer:WATCHDOG DEVICE DRIVERS)
linux-watchdog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (open list:WATCHDOG DEVICE DRIVERS)
linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (open list)

ACPI: watchdog: Device creation failed: -16
ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol
[\_SB.PCI0.XHC.RHUB.TPLD], AE_NOT_FOUND (20220331/psargs-330)
ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.UBTC.CR01._PLD due to previous error
(AE_NOT_FOUND) (20220331/psparse-529)

Send to ACPI list as described in the MAINTAINERS file.

The more important question is whether I should even bother anyone in
the first place.

And it's not just ACPI, what about "platform wdat_wdt: failed to claim
resource 5", "platform MSFT0101:00: failed to claim resource 1",
"lis3lv02d: unknown sensor type 0x0"?

I know you can probably identify the related components in a few
seconds, but I'm quite sure you won't be doing that for every bug report.

Should this be addressed?

Best regards,
Artem