Commit e223a707 authored by Thorsten Leemhuis's avatar Thorsten Leemhuis Committed by Jonathan Corbet
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docs: reporting-issues: move 'outdated, need help' note to proper place 



Move the 'this section is a placeholder for now and needs help by
someone with domain knowledge' note one section upwards to the place
where it belongs: the 'Decode failure messages' section.

Signed-off-by: default avatarThorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d3894ba4a302beed661304cbcdc062c6dcfe3e58.1607489877.git.linux@leemhuis.info


Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent 547f574f

Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst

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Decode failure messages

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    *If the failure includes a stack dump, like an Oops does, consider decoding

    it to find the offending line of code.*



When the kernel detects an error, it will print a stack dump that allows to

identify the exact line of code where the issue happens. But that information

sometimes needs to get decoded to be readable, which is explained in

admin-guide/bug-hunting.rst.





Special care for regressions

----------------------------



.. note::



   FIXME: The text in this section is a placeholder for now and quite similar to
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    *If the failure includes a stack dump, like an Oops does, consider decoding

    it to find the offending line of code.*



When the kernel detects an error, it will print a stack dump that allows to

identify the exact line of code where the issue happens. But that information

sometimes needs to get decoded to be readable, which is explained in

admin-guide/bug-hunting.rst.





Special care for regressions

----------------------------



    *If your problem is a regression, try to narrow down when the issue was

    introduced as much as possible.*

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