Bug#546213: severity of 546213 is normal
Hi,
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 04:31:17AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 22:21 +0200, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Bastian, would you mind *explaining* why you think its justified to
> > decrease the severity of this bug to normal?
> >
> > The bug effectively renders my WLAN useless. I consider that
> > quiet having "major effect on the usability of a package without
> > rendering it unusable to everyone". So - why do you think it
> > doesn't and why do you think just downgrading with no explanation
> > is reasonable?
>
> Since this is a hardware-specific bug, it has absolutely zero impact on
> most users.
well, kernel bugs are most likely hardware-specific unless they
affect components like filesystem drivers etc. According to
the severity description it also does not need to impact other
users.
> It doesn't cause a crash or hang,
It does cause a hang of the driver. It causes broken
connections several times a day. It makes WLAN effectively
unusuable on this system. Basically it forces me to use
a kernel which is not part of the suite i'm using.
And causing a crash or a hang every 10-30 minutes wouldn't
be important. That would be grave.
> and you have a simple workaround.
Oh yeah, every 10-30 minutes I can force my system to connect
to the WLAN again. Which takes about 30 seconds, because the
driver needs to realize that something is wrong.
Sometimes this isn't enough and I need to reload the module.
This is not really practicable.
OTOH I can of course not use the wireless driver and use
a cable. If one considers that practicable ;-)
> This doesn't even come close to being "important".
I disagree, but its not worth to argue about this.
For me its a blocker for the use of 2.6.30, so I hope it
gets fixed regardless of the severity.
Best Regards,
Patrick
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