Comment 593 for bug 88746

Andy,
    I regret that you feel this to be some sort of 'cop out', however, I am acting in my official capacity as the Kernel Bug Supervisor. It appears you are relatively unfamiliar with Launchpad as there is no facility for deleting non-useful comments. Even if there were, it would be a misuse of time to read through the 590 comments in this bug to determine what was of use. It is the Kernel Teams policy to close such bugs and have affected reporters open new bugs. This is the reason for my subsequent closing of this bug. I have asked for, and frankly hope for additions to Launchpad in the future that i anticipate will help in situations like this. Those are not yet reality. Your remark that there are plenty of detailed logs attached also illustrates a part of the problem. Were this bug to reach one of my Engineers, it would be impossible to wade through all of the logs to 1) verify the issue and 2) determine a fix.

I also think you may be suffering from a mis-perception of the Ubuntu Kernel Team. This team is focused on providing relevant stable updates from upstream in a versioned distribution of Ubuntu released every six months. That said, the team's focus is not on bug resolution but rather on insuring that the relevant and needed patches to address a majority of hardware are included upon release. Any issue that needs to be addressed in a different manner needs to be brought to the attention of the Linux Kernel maintainers via bugzilla.kernel.org.

I hope you find this useful.

Thanks!

~JFo