Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 15:27:05 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
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        One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
        Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>, Daniel Mack <daniel@zonque.org>
Subject: Re: kdbus: to merge or not to merge?
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* Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de> 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
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