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Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 08:51:48 -0700
From: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
To: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
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Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Re: OK, let's try cleaning up another nit. Is anyone paying attention?
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On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 10:59:34AM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>:
> > > well, though.  One is the kind I'm bumping into right now, where
> > > somebody legitimately needs to make small (almost trivial) changes
> > > scattered all through the tree.
> > 
> > Yep. But such changes are rare. Or should be. 
> 
> Knowing that doesn't help me much, since I'm trying to fix up a global
> namespace that touches everybody :-(.

Which does boil down to having to work with trees other than Linus or
Alans.  Remember, the official tree is not always the up-to-date tree,
or in the case of other arches, the most relevant tree.  But if you send
something off to a maintainer, there's a good chance (if they're still active)
they'll do what you ask, and it'll get to Linus/Alan the next time they sync.
As long as the problem gets fixed, it shouldn't be as important if it's fixed
in everyones tree right now, or in a release or two.  If it's some sort of
huge bug it just might get fixed sooner.

-- 
Tom Rini (TR1265)
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
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