Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 18:56:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 18:56:00 -0500 Received: from air-2.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:15262 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 18:55:56 -0500 Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 16:04:32 -0800 From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: Dave Jones Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, bcrl@redhat.com, dank@kegel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Those ruddy punctuation fixes Message-Id: <20030307160432.04955003.rddunlap@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20030308005241.GA24077@suse.de> References: <3E684737.7080704@kegel.com> <20030307121723.B3204@redhat.com> <1047078959.23697.12.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030308005241.GA24077@suse.de> Organization: OSDL X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.6 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1307 Lines: 30 On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 23:52:47 -0100 Dave Jones wrote: | On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 11:15:59PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: | | > > Spelling fixes are annoying ways to break patches that provide no | > > user visible value. It also detracts from the character of the | > > code: who wants "drain brammage" to be replaced with "brain dammage"? | > People are actually *doing* things, give them a break. | | There's a shitload of patches in the 2.4 commit archives that | mostly still apply. With each iteration of spelling fixes, | it becomes more and more work to weed through these to find | out if things are really applied or not. In the beginning I | used Rusty's 'isapplied' script. Its now pretty much useless, | requiring manual inspection of code on every diff. | | Spelling fixes aren't going to get us to 2.6.0 any faster. | There are _dozens_ of known problems, and I'll take patches | fixing real problems over spelling fixes any day. What/where is the "2.4 commit archives"? Do you want/need any help with this? -- ~Randy - 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/