Make Linux Developers Fix Your Kernel Bug

Recorded December 7, 2022

View an interactive, complimentary Mentorship Session: Make Linux Developers Fix Your Kernel Bug with Thorsten Leemhuis

Report your Linux kernel problems properly and the developers will fix most of them – but do it badly and your report will mostly likely be silently ignored. Lots of pitfalls are the reason many users experience the latter outcome; avoiding that fate will be easy with the knowledge provided by this talk:

• which kernels and configurations you want to avoid, as developers don't care about them
• which bugs kernel developers are obliged to fix and how to spot issues that won't be addressed not worth reporting
• where to submit your report to and why bugzilla.kernel.org is often the wrong place
• how to write the report: what information it should include, and what you want to leave out
• what else you should bring to the table and how you want to approach it