Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965176AbVJENkK (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 09:40:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965172AbVJENkJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 09:40:09 -0400 Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:49977 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965176AbVJENkH (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 09:40:07 -0400 Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 15:40:43 +0200 From: Jens Axboe To: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: what's next for the linux kernel? Message-ID: <20051005134041.GR3511@suse.de> References: <05Oct4.173802edt.33143@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca> <20051005120727.GV10538@lkcl.net> <20051005123113.GO3511@suse.de> <20051005133549.GB10538@lkcl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051005133549.GB10538@lkcl.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1143 Lines: 28 On Wed, Oct 05 2005, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 02:31:14PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > [i know better criticism and accusations deleted and not commented on] > > > Why is that so hard to understand? Succesful contributions start at the > > technical level, always have. > > then we will have to agree to disagree, because i believe that > successful contributions start with "what creative thing shall > we do now / what problem shall we tackle today in a creative > way?" and work their way down to the technical level, which, > as you rightly point out, requires successful _technical_ > contributions. It's not my opinion, I'm stating historical fact. I honestly can't remember when a succesfull contribution was made based on a long non-technical thread. I can, however, remember oodles of cases where the reverse is quite true. -- Jens Axboe - 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/