* Andrew Morton [off-list ref] wrote:

We dont' do that as much nowadays - there's a tendency to

a) throw the problem back at the reporter, often asking them to 
   bisect. If the reporter is running a distro kernel (eg: Fedora) 
   then that's quite hard, and often isn't a think they have knowledge 
   to do.  So they'll just disappear.  Or

b) just ignore the report altogether.

hm, who does this - i've seen networking folks do it but does anyone 
else do it? Such cases are _clear_ abuse of users and they'll do the 
obvious thing: vote with their feet.

I only ask people to bisect it when all other avenues fail - and even 
then i try to make it clear that bisection is just something they can 
_optionally_ do to speed things up (it's never required), and that it's 
a pure opt-in.

doing _kernel_ bisection is totally hard at the moment - it disrupts the 
user way too much and causes many hours of work for most users. [ 
Requiring bisection for userspace projects might be more doable. (but 
even there's it's wrong when it's not automated completely and where a 
failure pattern is not deterministic.) ]

	Ingo