From: "Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:02:35 +0200 > On 11/04/2008, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > From: "Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx> > > Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:09:11 +0200 > > > > What people don't get is that this is a situation where the "end node > > principle" applies. When you have limited resources (here: > > developers) you don't push the bulk of the burdon upon them. Instead > > you push things out to the resource you have a lot of, the end nodes > > (here: users), so that the situation actually scales. > > > Again I can''t do anything but agree with you. You are right. When > it's possible to do the work this way everyone wins. > I was just trying to say that when it can't be done that way or the > user won't, then the bug report still has value and still deserves to > be taken seriously (although it probably goes lower in the pile than > the bugs where the end users actually do bisect or whatever). Absolutely. If, for example, someone has a clean OOPS I usually won't request a bisect, that's stupid. However if the OOPS is hard to diagnose, a bisect might be necessary still. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
