Theodore Tso wrote:
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 04:52:32PM +0100, Benoit Boissinot wrote:
Btw, I used to test every -mm kernel. But since I've switched distros (gentoo->ubuntu) and I have less time, I feel it's harder to test -rc or -mm kernels (I know this isn't a lkml problem but more a distro problem, but I would love having an ubuntu blessed repo with current dev kernel for the latest stable ubuntu release).
There are two parts to this. One is a Ubuntu development kernel which we can give to large numbers of people to expand our testing pool. But if we don't do a better job of responding to bug reports that would be generated by expanded testing this won't necessarily help us.
I'm very encouraged to read of your expanded testing efforts. As a bcm43xx developer, Ubuntu has been our problem distro, mostly because your standard kernels have debugging turned off for bcm43xx. When a Ubuntu user reports a problem and we ask for the relevant output from dmesg, they have no information. I ask two things of all distros: (1) Turn on debugging - we don't spam the logs that badly, and (2) forward any bugs found by your testing to the maintainer, and/or the bcm43xx mailing list.
Thanks,
Larry