Selecting a Linux Kernel Bug

Greg Freemyer greg.freemyer at gmail.com
Tue Mar 25 23:10:20 EDT 2014



On March 24, 2014 9:23:01 AM EDT, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
>On Mon, 24 Mar 2014 12:22:58 +0530, sanjeev sharma said:
>
>> Thanks and Let me subscribe so that I can start working on Bugs.
>
>Subscribing to lkml almost guarantees you won't have enough time to
>actually work on bugs.
>
>"Note that nobody reads every post in linux-kernel. In fact, nobody who
>expects
>to have time left over to actually do any real kernel work will read
>even half.
>Except Alan Cox, but he's actually not human, but about a thousand
>gnomes
>working in under-ground caves in Swansea. None of the individual gnomes
>read
>all the postings either, they just work together really well." -- Linus
>Torvalds
>
>The linux-kernel list has about 4 times the traffic now as when Linus
>said that.

I subscribe to a few subsystem lists, that is more than I can keep up with.  I've never had the urge to even try lkml.  For me it's ide/libata, ext4, xfs.  I should drop ext4 as I rarely read it these days.

Greg
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