Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932544AbVIHQ2d (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Sep 2005 12:28:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932548AbVIHQ2d (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Sep 2005 12:28:33 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:25012 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932544AbVIHQ2b (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Sep 2005 12:28:31 -0400 Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 09:27:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Alan Cox cc: Russell King , Linux Kernel List , Dave Miller , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Serial maintainership In-Reply-To: <1126197523.19834.49.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: References: <20050908165256.D5661@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <1126197523.19834.49.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1565 Lines: 39 On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Alan Cox wrote: > > On Iau, 2005-09-08 at 16:52 +0100, Russell King wrote: > > I notice DaveM's taken over serial maintainership. Please arrange for > > serial patches to be sent to davem in future, thanks. (All ARM serial > > drivers are broken as of Tuesday.) > > > > I might take a different view if I at least had a curtious CC: of the > > patch, which I had already asked akpm to reject. > > > > Thanks. That's another subsystem I don't have to care about anymore. > > Please remember to send Linus a patch updating MAINTAINERS if so. Guys, stop being stupid about things. I already sent rmk an email in private. And Alan, there's absolutely no point in making things even worse. Mistakes happen, and the way you fix them is not to pull a tantrum, but tell people that they are idiots and they broke something, and get them to fix it instead. You don't have to be polite about it, and swearing is fine. So instead of saying "I don't want to play any more because Davem made a mistake", say something like "Davem is a f*cking clueless moron, here's what he did and here's why it's wrong". Notice? In both cases you get to vent your unhappiness. In the second case, you make the person who made a mistake look bad. But in the first case, it's just yourself that looks bad. Linus - 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/