Bill Mills-Curran wrote:
How do I report a bug (or at least ask for help) in a newer kernel? (The gory details are below, if you are interested.) I sent some email to a developer whose name I found in the suspect source, but I did not get any response. Any suggestions?
To start - try grabbing the latest stable version - 2.4.17 and if the problem still exists - try the latest pre-patch which is 2.4.18-pre7. Doing a quick grep on nfs in the changelogs - I received several hits - so the problem may have been addressed. If after testing this with the latest stable release and prepatch release - I would then resend the bug report. I would also send the bug report to - mailto:linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org - this is the main kernel mailing list. When sending to this list indicate that you sent the message to person xyz and received no response and ask who the current maintainer for the nfs code is. If you get a different name as the maintainer - resend the report to that person. You may want to take a look at the following URL for reporting kernel bugs: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/lkml/reporting-bugs.html Your bug report is fairly thorough and should suffice. Remember that the person you sent the bug report to just may be very busy (such as they may do this in their own free time) and has not got around to it yet or may have dropped it on the floor if the problem has already been solved. Don't be afraid to resend the bug report if the problem does still exist in the latest pre-patch release. Also if you don't get anywhere that route - try going to http://kernelnewbies.org/ - they have a few mailing lists and an IRC channel where you might also get some responses. Good Luck! - Tom