Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 10:00:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 10:00:28 -0400 Received: from users.linvision.com ([62.58.92.114]:41882 "EHLO abraracourcix.bitwizard.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 10:00:26 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 16:05:13 +0200 From: Rogier Wolff To: Alan Cox , Larry McVoy , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: [BK PATCH] USB changes for 2.5.34 Message-ID: <20020916160513.A14649@bitwizard.nl> References:

<20020915190435.GA19821@nevyn.them.org> <20020915162412.A17345@work.bitmover.com> <20020915234108.GA1348@nevyn.them.org> <20020915165235.B17345@work.bitmover.com> <1032139750.26911.20.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20020915191318.C22354@work.bitmover.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020915191318.C22354@work.bitmover.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i Organization: BitWizard.nl Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1511 Lines: 32 On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 07:13:18PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: > the code would have fixed it already? It's almost never as simple as a > naive point of view thinks it is and that's exactly why you don't want > people hacking about in that code. Either understand it and really fix > it, own it, maintain it, live with it, or leave it alone. Sometimes people who maintain the code move on to other things. So, maintenance is sometimes required by people who do not have "maintenance of this code" in their job description. When I'm paying their salary, they get to fix other peoples code, even if it's none of their business. Now preferably such a fix would be passed through a maintainer who can say (with his intimate knowledge of the code): "Oops, you're right your patch is indeed an improvement". If that's not possible, we'll have to make do with some testing. Roger. -- ** R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl ** http://www.BitWizard.nl/ ** +31-15-2137555 ** *-- BitWizard writes Linux device drivers for any device you may have! --* * The Worlds Ecosystem is a stable system. Stable systems may experience * * excursions from the stable situation. We are currenly in such an * * excursion: The stable situation does not include humans. *************** - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/