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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