Explicitly lay out the remaining options if the user can't reproduce the issue with a mainline kernel. Especially send those that are interested in seeing it fixed in stable and longterm kernels to a section dedicated to it (added in a later patch), as the process would get hard to follow if all of it was explained here; especially as there is a back reference to this process for regressions that are specific to stable and longterm and were never present in mainline. Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-bugs.rst | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-bugs.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-bugs.rst index 02f846f4a324..2a7d13562905 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-bugs.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-bugs.rst @@ -744,6 +744,22 @@ for it before you reporting issues that occur with it. See the section above for details how to do that. +Reproduce issue with the fresh kernel +------------------------------------- + + *Reproduce the issue with the kernel you just installed. If it doesn't show + up there, head over to the instructions for issues only happening with + stable and longterm kernels if you want to see it fixed there.* + +Check if the issue occurs with the Linux kernel you just installed. If it was +fixed there already, consider sticking with this version line and canceling +your plan to report the issue. But keep in mind that other users might be +plagued by it, as long as it's not fixed in either stable and longterm version +from kernel.org (and thus vendor kernels derived from those). If you prefer to +use one of those and help their users, head over to the section "Details about +reporting issues only occurring in older kernel version lines" below. + + .. ############################################################################ .. Temporary marker added while this document is rewritten. Sections above .. are new and dual-licensed under GPLv2+ and CC-BY 4.0, those below are old. -- 2.26.2
