On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 04:44:21PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:

Thorsten Leemhuis [off-list ref] writes:

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FWIW, on another channel someone mentioned the process in the TLDR is
quite complicated when it comes to regressions in stable and longterm
kernels. I looked at the text and it seemed like a valid complaint, esp.
as those regressions are something we really care about.

To solve this properly I sadly had to shake up the text in this section
completely and rewrite parts of it. Find the result below. I'm quite
happy with it, as it afaics is more straight forward and easier to
understand. And it matches the step-by-step guide better. And the best
thing: it's a bit shorter than the old TLDR.

I think this is much improved - concise is good! :)  I really just have
one little comment...

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I'll wait a day or two and then will send it through the regular review
together with a few small other fixes that piled up for the text, just
wanted to add it here for completeness.

---
The short guide (aka TL;DR)
===========================

Are you facing a regression with vanilla kernels from the same stable or
longterm series? One still supported? Then search the `LKML
<https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/>`_ and the `Linux stable mailing list
<https://lore.kernel.org/stable/>_` archives for matching reports to
join. If you don't find any, install `the latest release from that
series <https://kernel.org/>`_. If it still shows the issue, report it
to the stable mailing list and the stable maintainers.

If we really want this to be a short guide that gets people to the
answer quickly, we might as well put the addresses to report to right
here rather than making people search for them.

"stable@vger.kernel.org" is good to use here, no need to also cc: any
individuals for this type of thing.

thanks,

greg k-h