Comment 82 for bug 245779

Clearly several of you are under a misconception as to the role of the Ubuntu Kernel Team. I will attempt to clarify.

The Ubuntu Kernel Team is focused on providing the most stable kernel possible for a release schedule of 6 months. This means that they are committed to pulling in the patches from upstream that make the most sense and are stable enough to be included for a distro release. They are not the type of team that works through kernel bugs and resolve them in the upstream source. For that you would need to open bugs with https://bugzilla.kernel.org/ as they are the upstream maintainers of the Linux kernel. The Ubuntu Kernel Team accepts bugs so that we can pull the relevant fixes from the upstream source where possible. This is the only use case for our tracking of bugs and it is also what contributes in some cases to the length of time in response to open bugs.

Should your testing against upstream kernels such as those available in the kernel PPA by following https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds then my suggestion is that you should file an upstream bug report to have this looked at by the kernel maintainers. Information and suggestion on filing upstream bug reports is available at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Bugs in the section titled 'Reporting Bugs Upstream'

~JFo