Kernel regression tracking, part 1

> As the discussion came to a close, it was noted that regression
> reporting is hard for most users. They don't know where to send
> their reports, and there is little information out there to help
> them. The noise on the mailing lists does not help. The kernel
> Bugzilla is especially problematic since it is the wrong place to
> report many bugs, but it's not clear which ones or where they
> should actually go.

MAINTAINERS has "B:" entry to specify the preferred channel for bug reports per subsystem. That's a start. But it needs to be used more, and then made more accessible to bug reporters.

> Ts'o said that, if it were up to him, he would designate the
> Bugzilla as being for all kernel bugs, and that subsystem
> maintainers would simply be told to cope with it. In the absence
> of such a policy, users will continue to struggle.

I don't think you can "simply tell" maintainers to do anything.

For drm/i915 we prefer bug reports at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/ because it's much more likely the graphics bugs get reassigned between kernel and userspace components than between kernel components. We cope with https://bugzilla.kernel.org/ by telling people to file the bugs at fdo instead.