A fairly large percentage of bugs that get reported against X now end up being kernel bugs thanks to KMS. As users cotton on to this shift there will likely be more bugs reported against the kernel which are actually an X bug, too.
In X land we've got a rich set of tags¹ set up for describing the various forms of common brokenness. Some of these obviously don't apply to the kernel side of things, some obviously do. On the kernel side we have a much smaller set of tags² mainly organised around subsystems. There's also a single lonely “xorg-needs-kernel-fix” tag which looks like it could painlessly be folded into the kernel-graphics tag. In the X team we've found the wider set of tags quite useful, as we're generally pretty reluctant to merge bugs by duplicating them unless exactly the same hardware is involved. These bugs often get fixed as group, however - particularly bugs tagged edid and backlight, but also others - and having the richer tags makes it easier to find bugs to ask for re-testing. As we'll be exchanging bugs with more regularity I thought it would be useful to check that we're on the same page, and to work out a common set of tags if the kernel team feel they'd be valuable. [1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Tagging [2]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Tagging
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