Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965222AbVJEP3q (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 11:29:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965223AbVJEP3q (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 11:29:46 -0400 Received: from free.hands.com ([83.142.228.128]:42156 "EHLO free.hands.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965222AbVJEP3q (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 11:29:46 -0400 Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 16:29:35 +0100 From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton To: Jens Axboe Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: what's next for the linux kernel? Message-ID: <20051005152935.GE10538@lkcl.net> References: <05Oct4.173802edt.33143@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca> <20051005120727.GV10538@lkcl.net> <20051005123113.GO3511@suse.de> <20051005133549.GB10538@lkcl.net> <20051005134041.GR3511@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051005134041.GR3511@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i X-hands-com-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: lkcl@lkcl.net Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1290 Lines: 30 On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 03:40:43PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > 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. ah. who's hosting the linux-visionaries mailing list, then? - 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/