Quotes of the week [LWN.net]

Quotes of the week

Posted Feb 5, 2011 0:58 UTC (Sat) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)
In reply to: Quotes of the week by mjg59
Parent article: Quotes of the week

Expecting software designers to cater for bugs that haven't even been reported is pretty unreasonable.

True, but then ikm never said he expects software designers to address these bugs.

I don't report bugs. The probably of the report resulting in a fix is too small to justify my time. I just accept my loss and look for the next best alternative.

I'm cognizant of the fact that if the bug affects only me, there's a vanishing chance that some developer working for free will be interested in fixing it, and if it affects a lot of people, someone else will have reported it or, better yet, some developer with the means to fix it will have experienced it himself.

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Quotes of the week

Posted Feb 5, 2011 1:03 UTC (Sat) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]

At this stage, if you have a machine with an in-kernel graphics driver and it fails to suspend or resume then there aren't huge numbers of people reporting the bug. Really. Suspend/resume is part of the certification process for RHEL now and I get all the related bugs. There simply aren't that many, and in general it's something like hibernate failing because someone's swap partition vanished. I really would encourage you to report any suspend/resume issues to bugzilla.kernel.org and the massive probability is that it'll be tracked down quickly.

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Posted Feb 5, 2011 1:05 UTC (Sat) by ikm (subscriber, #493) [Link]

Even if there's an NVIDIA blob involved?

Quotes of the week

Posted Feb 5, 2011 1:09 UTC (Sat) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]

If you can repeat the bug with nouveau, then file it. If not, file with nvidia. I'm afraid that I work for a free software company, so we tend to make decisions based on the code that we actually ship.