Re: ACPI bug tracking

On Thu, 8 May 2003 07:15:07 -0700 "Brown, Len" [off-list ref] wrote:

| Filing ACPI issues at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/ is preferred for either
| the 2.4 or 2.5 tree.  Splitting the issue lists between what are very
| similar versions of the ACPI code would just cause duplication and
| confusion.  Be sure to select component=ACPI, and clearly mark the
| kernel+patch version.

It may be preferred, but that bugzilla is specifically set up for 2.5
bug tracking.  Unless and until that is changed, 2.4 bugs should be
filed at sf.net/projects/acpi or with Linux distros.

| Sightings with un-adulterated distributor's pre-releases should still be
| filed directly where the distributor says, e.g. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/
| http://bugzilla.suse.de/ etc.  They don't generally seem to have a special
| component for ACPI, but hopefully the description will direct the issue the
| right way.
| 
| Please do not use the sourceforge bug tracker
| (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=36832&atid=425171) those will be
| ignored.

Too bad.  Yes, I know that it's a pain to have to look in multiple places.

| > this way at least it can't get lost in some mailing list archive. 
| 
| Yep, that's the idea.

--
~Randy


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