Re: [RFC PATCH v2 21/26] docs: reporting-bugs: details on writing and sending the report

2020-11-19 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Am 19.11.20 um 01:17 schrieb Jonathan Corbet: On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 18:58:58 +0100 Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: That's also why this commit removes scripts/ver_linux as well: the details it collects are only needed in some situations. And some (a lot?) distributions do not ship it anyway; a better,

Re: [RFC PATCH v2 21/26] docs: reporting-bugs: details on writing and sending the report

2020-11-18 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 18:58:58 +0100 Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > That's also why this commit removes scripts/ver_linux as well: the > details it collects are only needed in some situations. And some (a > lot?) distributions do not ship it anyway; a better, more modern script > would likely resist in

[RFC PATCH v2 21/26] docs: reporting-bugs: details on writing and sending the report

2020-11-12 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Outline how to write the report. Give instructions that hopefully will make people write better reports that ideally are also quick to evaluate for kernel developers. At the same time put some more faith into the readers to make them provide all relevant data. That's a bit different to the approac