1 [Some of this is taken from Frohwalt Egerer's original linux-kernel FAQ]
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3 What follows is a suggested procedure for reporting Linux bugs. You
4 aren't obliged to use the bug reporting format, it is provided as a guide
5 to the kind of information that can be useful to developers - no more.
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7 If the failure includes an "OOPS:" type message in your log or on
8 screen please read "Documentation/oops-tracing.txt" before posting your
9 bug report. This explains what you should do with the "Oops" information
10 to make it useful to the recipient.
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12 Send the output to the maintainer of the kernel area that seems to
13 be involved with the problem. Don't worry too much about getting the
14 wrong person. If you are unsure send it to the person responsible for the
15 code relevant to what you were doing. If it occurs repeatably try and
16 describe how to recreate it. That is worth even more than the oops itself.
17 The list of maintainers is in the MAINTAINERS file in this directory.
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19 If you are totally stumped as to whom to send the report, send it to
20 linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org. (For more information on the linux-kernel
21 mailing list see http://www.tux.org/lkml/).
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23 This is a suggested format for a bug report sent to the Linux kernel mailing
24 list. Having a standardized bug report form makes it easier for you not to
25 overlook things, and easier for the developers to find the pieces of
26 information they're really interested in. Don't feel you have to follow it.
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28 First run the ver_linux script included as scripts/ver_linux, which
29 reports the version of some important subsystems. Run this script with
30 the command "sh scripts/ver_linux".
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32 Use that information to fill in all fields of the bug report form, and
33 post it to the mailing list with a subject of "PROBLEM: <one line
34 summary from [1.]>" for easy identification by the developers
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36 [1.] One line summary of the problem:
37 [2.] Full description of the problem/report:
38 [3.] Keywords (i.e., modules, networking, kernel):
39 [4.] Kernel version (from /proc/version):
40 [5.] Output of Oops.. message (if applicable) with symbolic information
41 resolved (see Documentation/oops-tracing.txt)
42 [6.] A small shell script or example program which triggers the
43 problem (if possible)
44 [7.] Environment
45 [7.1.] Software (add the output of the ver_linux script here)
46 [7.2.] Processor information (from /proc/cpuinfo):
47 [7.3.] Module information (from /proc/modules):
48 [7.4.] Loaded driver and hardware information (/proc/ioports, /proc/iomem)
49 [7.5.] PCI information ('lspci -vvv' as root)
50 [7.6.] SCSI information (from /proc/scsi/scsi)
51 [7.7.] Other information that might be relevant to the problem
52 (please look in /proc and include all information that you
53 think to be relevant):
54 [X.] Other notes, patches, fixes, workarounds:
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56
57 Thank you
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