Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs


* Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:08:47 +0100 Ingo Molnar wrote:


* Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

(and this is in no way directed at the networking folks - it holds
for all of us. I have one main complaint about networking: the
separate netdev list is a bad idea - networking regressions should
be discussed and fixed on lkml, like most other subsystems are. Any
artificial split of the lk discussion space is bad.)

but here I disagree. LKML is already too busy and noisy. Major
subsystems need their own discussion areas.

That's a stupid argument. We lose much more by forced isolation of
discussion than what we win by having less traffic! It's _MUCH_
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easier to narrow down information (by filter by threads, by topics,
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by people, etc.) than it is to gobble information together from
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various fractured sources. We learned it _again and again_ that
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isolation of kernel discussions causes bad things.
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In fact this thread is the very example: David points out that on
netdev some of those bugs were already discussed and resolved. Had
it been all on lkml we'd all be aware of it.

or had <someone> been on netdev.

countered by the underlined sentences above, just in case you missed it.

Ingo
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