Improving the handling of PR:s

[Bernd Walter]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 07:35:41PM +0100, Peter Schuller wrote:
> * The committer may not have access to the hardware, or may not have a 
> software setup that allows for testing. This means doing such testing 
> suddenly requires a lot more effort.

Another point about hardware is that a patch might influence other
hardware handled by the same driver, which can't be verified by the
submitter nor the committer.
This is especially true with workarounds, which might only be required
for specific chip revisions.

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