On 03/17/2015 01:26 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 2:15 PM, jd1008 <jd1008@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 03/16/2015 02:58 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 03/16/2015 12:37 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
Just because the crash doesn't occur in an out of tree module, doesn't
mean that the out of tree module isn't instigating the problem though.
Agreed. That's why I suggested trying to duplicate the crash with an
untainted kernel.
Or, abrt should allow the user to submit the bug to some
other bugzilla - i.e; not necessarily fedora nor redhat.
All abrt needs to do is ask the user for that "other"
user's login credentials.
a. It actually has to communicate with a server, so whose hosting this
"other" bugzilla?
I think the point here is that a user could configure ADDITIONAL
bugzilla sites. If the kernel aborts and abrt determines it's a tainted
kernel, then it could pop up this list of additional sites and let the
user report the crash to a site on that list. Yes, this is an extension
to abrt, but I think a reasonable (and positive) one.
b. Then what happens? Who looks at these reports?
It rather depends on which site you're reporting to. I think bug
reports to companies such as nVidia or AMD or HP or Intel or any one of
a number of others would be looked at. I do development work on nVidia
CUDA stuff and, while they don't have a bugzilla, they are responsive
to bug reports using their other mechanisms.
Why bother with this infrastructure if no one is going to look at the
reports or do anything about them?
You're assuming they won't without any reason to think that. The fact
they set up a bugzilla in the first place (and the user has login
credentials for it) is fairly indicative that they do want to fix
problems.
To assume that only the kernel developers or Red Hat (or Suse or Ubuntu
or whomever) are the ONLY people that care to fix bugs is rather myopic.
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