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[Some of this is taken from Frohwalt Egerer's original linux-kernel FAQ]
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- What follows is a suggested procedure for reporting Linux bugs. You
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-aren't obliged to use the bug reporting format, it is provided as a guide
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-to the kind of information that can be useful to developers - no more.
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+What follows is a suggested procedure for reporting Linux bugs. You aren't
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+obliged to use the bug reporting format, it is provided as a guide to the
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+kind of information that can be useful to developers - no more.
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- If the failure includes an "OOPS:" type message in your log or on
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-screen please read "Documentation/oops-tracing.txt" before posting your
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-bug report. This explains what you should do with the "Oops" information
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-to make it useful to the recipient.
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+If the failure includes an "OOPS:" type message in your log or on screen
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+please read "Documentation/oops-tracing.txt" before posting your bug
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+report. This explains what you should do with the "Oops" information to
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+make it useful to the recipient.
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+
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+Send the output to the maintainer of the kernel area that seems to be
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+involved with the problem, and cc the relevant mailing list. Don't worry
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+too much about getting the wrong person. If you are unsure send it to the
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+person responsible for the code relevant to what you were doing. If it
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+occurs repeatably try and describe how to recreate it. That is worth even
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+more than the oops itself. The list of maintainers and mailing lists is
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+in the MAINTAINERS file in this directory. If you know the file name that
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+causes the problem you can use the following command in this directory to
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+find some of the maintainers of that file:
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- Send the output to the maintainer of the kernel area that seems to
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-be involved with the problem, and cc the relevant mailing list. Don't
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-worry too much about getting the wrong person. If you are unsure send it
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-to the person responsible for the code relevant to what you were doing.
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-If it occurs repeatably try and describe how to recreate it. That is
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-worth even more than the oops itself. The list of maintainers and
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-mailing lists is in the MAINTAINERS file in this directory. If you
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-know the file name that causes the problem you can use the following
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-command in this directory to find some of the maintainers of that file:
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perl scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f <filename>
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- If it is a security bug, please copy the Security Contact listed
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-in the MAINTAINERS file. They can help coordinate bugfix and disclosure.
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-See Documentation/SecurityBugs for more information.
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+If it is a security bug, please copy the Security Contact listed in the
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+MAINTAINERS file. They can help coordinate bugfix and disclosure. See
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+Documentation/SecurityBugs for more information.
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- If you are totally stumped as to whom to send the report, send it to
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+If you are totally stumped as to whom to send the report, send it to
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linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org. (For more information on the linux-kernel
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mailing list see http://www.tux.org/lkml/).
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@@ -33,7 +34,7 @@ list. Having a standardized bug report form makes it easier for you not to
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overlook things, and easier for the developers to find the pieces of
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information they're really interested in. Don't feel you have to follow it.
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- First run the ver_linux script included as scripts/ver_linux, which
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+First run the ver_linux script included as scripts/ver_linux, which
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reports the version of some important subsystems. Run this script with
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the command "sh scripts/ver_linux".
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