Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261584AbVDJTZu (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Apr 2005 15:25:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261585AbVDJTZu (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Apr 2005 15:25:50 -0400 Received: from omx2-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.19]:60300 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261584AbVDJTZp (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Apr 2005 15:25:45 -0400 Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 12:23:52 -0700 From: Paul Jackson To: Christopher Li Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, pasky@ucw.cz, rddunlap@osdl.org, ross@jose.lug.udel.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: more git updates.. Message-Id: <20050410122352.19890f6d.pj@engr.sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20050410065307.GC13853@64m.dyndns.org> References: <20050409200709.GC3451@pasky.ji.cz> <20050410065307.GC13853@64m.dyndns.org> 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: 994 Lines: 25 > Some thing like the following patch, may be turn off able. Take out an old envelope and compute on it the odds of this happening. Say we have 10,000 kernel hackers, each producing one new file every minute, for 100 hours a week. And we've cloned a small army of Andrew Morton's to integrate the resulting tsunamai of patches. And Linus is well cared for in the state funny farm. What is the probability that this check will fire even once, between now and 10 billion years from now, when the Sun has become a red giant destroying all life on planet Earth? -- 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/