Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262345AbVCVFlh (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Mar 2005 00:41:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262360AbVCVFhM (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Mar 2005 00:37:12 -0500 Received: from zeus.kernel.org ([204.152.189.113]:24961 "EHLO zeus.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262420AbVCVFeW (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Mar 2005 00:34:22 -0500 Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 21:32:40 -0800 From: Paul Jackson To: Phillip Lougher Cc: akpm@osdl.org, jdub@us.ibm.com, pavel@suse.cz, pmarques@grupopie.com, greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH][2/2] SquashFS Message-Id: <20050321213240.65475c99.pj@engr.sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <423F89F7.9090407@lougher.demon.co.uk> References: <20050314170653.1ed105eb.akpm@osdl.org> <20050314190140.5496221b.akpm@osdl.org> <423727BD.7080200@grupopie.com> <20050321101441.GA23456@elf.ucw.cz> <423EEEC2.9060102@lougher.demon.co.uk> <20050321190044.GD1390@elf.ucw.cz> <423F0C67.6000006@lougher.demon.co.uk> <20050321224937.GQ1390@elf.ucw.cz> <1111459265.20190.15.camel@windu.rchland.ibm.com> <20050321190436.28f76a65.akpm@osdl.org> <423F89F7.9090407@lougher.demon.co.uk> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-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: 991 Lines: 22 It is not so much selling, in my view, as putting in context. If one can simply explain to others what is before them, so that they can quickly understand its purposes, scope, architecture, limitations, alternatives, and such, then others can quickly evaluate what it is, and whether such seems like a good idea. It doesn't necessarily mean they buy it any quicker. Sometimes it just means it gets shot down quicker ;). That's ok. There's a _lot_ of stuff that flows by here ... be gentle and helpfully informative to the poor reader ... as best you can. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.650.933.1373, 1.925.600.0401 - 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/