On Fri, 14 Jul 2023 08:24:38 +0200 Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > Also: It's totally normal that commercial vendor contribute basic > drivers with known problems and missing features (some of which will > never be implemented). The latter will be considered a "bug" for quite a > few users that read this. Those suddenly thus might becomes something > they now "must" fix, which leads to questions: how fast? just in > mainline, or in stable, too? If we try to fend off anyone who doesn't understand common meaning of words the document will be very long and painful to read. > All this also opens questions like "what counts as bug report" -- I'd > assume users that find and read this will expect that a report in > bugzilla.kernel.org is one maintainers "must" respond to. But I assume > you only meant bugs reports by mail or in trackers the MAINTAINERS file > mentions? I don't want to be too prescriptive, subsystems will vary. > And overall I don't really like the way how handling of regressions is > described in that section, as they afaics are expected to be handled > with a higher priority than bugs. Me neither, FWIW. I tried a couple of times to weave that information in but I can't come up with a way of doing that without breaking the logical flow. Could just be me. Edit to what I sent to Krzysztof would be appreciated if you have one in mind.
