Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752693AbbFXN1S (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jun 2015 09:27:18 -0400 Received: from mail-wg0-f46.google.com ([74.125.82.46]:33343 "EHLO mail-wg0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752006AbbFXN1K (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jun 2015 09:27:10 -0400 Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 15:27:05 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Martin Steigerwald Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andy Lutomirski , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , David Herrmann , Djalal Harouni , Greg KH , Havoc Pennington , "Eric W. Biederman" , One Thousand Gnomes , Tom Gundersen , Daniel Mack Subject: Re: kdbus: to merge or not to merge? Message-ID: <20150624132705.GA8267@gmail.com> References: <20150624080502.GA23842@gmail.com> <6798439.9m13YiNnBb@merkaba> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6798439.9m13YiNnBb@merkaba> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1428 Lines: 34 * Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 24. Juni 2015, 10:05:02 schrieb Ingo Molnar: > > Not because I like it so much, but because I think the merge process > > should be stripped of politics and emotion as much as possible: if an > > initial submission is good and addresses all technical review properly, > > and if the cost to the core kernel is low, then barring alternative, > > fully equivalent and superior patch submissions, rejecting it does more > > harm than good. > > Now that is an interesting challenge. > > As I realize more and more we are all feeling beings. > > Linus himself according to his own words as I received them wants to make > perfectly sure that the developer who receives a message from him exactly > knows how he feels, especially when he disagrees with a pull request and > does not want to take it. So that twists what I said: how 'I feel about a pull request' is a technical term for: 'what is my subjective but rational technological opinion' about it. That's not an invitation to be irrationally emotional. (I'm reasonably sure that's what Linus meant there too, but I don't speak for him.) Thanks, Ingo -- 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/