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From: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
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On Thu, 22 Jun 2017, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 16:12:09 +0200,
> Jiri Kosina wrote:
>> 
>> On Thu, 22 Jun 2017, Takashi Iwai wrote:
>> 
>> > - The inconsistent bug tracking over the whole kernel areas:
>> >   which way to report purely depends on the subsystem.  Even inside a
>> >   subsystem, some prefer bugzilla while some don't.
>> 
>> Agreed that this might be annoying for the reporters, but I don't think we 
>> want to go towards pushing maintainers to use one unified solution. That'd 
>> be counter-productive.
>
> I don't pursue that, either.  It'd be great, though, if we can reduce
> the too much differences.  The variety is the strength of open source,
> but in this case...

The least we can do is use the MAINTAINERS "B:" tag to document the
preferences of each subsystem or driver.


BR,
Jani.


-- 
Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center