On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:11:37PM +0530, naveen krishna ch wrote:
I am reporting an issue for last 4 days and i am not getting enough response fromt he mailing list.
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I am getting very less replies against my issue am i posting to wrong people or what can any one tell me how can i make use of this mailing list to its fullest
Just to emphasise what John said, you can't rely on any particular support level from the community - the responses will depend on a range of factors, including things like how busy the people involved are.
You can normally help getting a response by providing as much information as possible about your problem and the steps you have taken to resolve it - this makes it very much easier for people to reply since, for example, it's more likely that something will jump out at them. These web pages contain some suggestions on the sorts of thing to do in your e-mail to help get the best response (the second one is more targetted at end users than developers but is still useful):
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html
With the kernel community it can also help to send direct copies of your mail to people who have worked on the relevant code since people may either miss postings on mailing lists (there is often a lot of traffic) or in some cases not be subscribed to the lists at all. This doesn't apply to all free software projects - you should check the normal standards for a given project before doing this.
I also see that Jarkko has already suggested that in this particular case you contact the OMAP kernel developers - I'd suggest following up that route as well.
If you need guaranteed responses or more detailed responses than you are able to obtain from the community the usual approach is to work with people with whom you have a commercial relationship - for example, your chip or software vendors, or consultants you have employed.