An invalidated bug. Should it have really been invalidated?

[Brian Murray]

On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 05:44:31PM +0100, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> * Claudio Moretti (flyingstar16 at gmail.com) wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Phil Wyett <one.ukit at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > The bug I am concerned about is #1172908
> > >
> > 
> > I reopened it; in my opinion, it should have never been closed: if there's
> > at least one person able to reproduce it, the bug is there. In this case,
> > there are three.
> 
> I agree, however it's a little tricky with Kernel bugs; the normal
> instructions there are not to merge bugs unless you're sure it's the same
> bug.
> In this case I would agree they're almost certainly the same problem
> (since the models are all the same).

I didn't read all the comments in the bug report, but how can we be
certain that they are all the same models?  I'm under the impression
that internal components of systems change even though they may all be
called the same name.  Subsequently, I understand why the kernel team
wants individual bug reports (with hardware information gathered) from
each user.

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Brian Murray