Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030189AbVJEPvE (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 11:51:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030190AbVJEPvE (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 11:51:04 -0400 Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:5411 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030189AbVJEPvC (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 11:51:02 -0400 Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 17:51:39 +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: <20051005155138.GJ3511@suse.de> References: <05Oct4.173802edt.33143@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca> <20051005120727.GV10538@lkcl.net> <20051005123113.GO3511@suse.de> <20051005133549.GB10538@lkcl.net> <20051005134041.GR3511@suse.de> <20051005152935.GE10538@lkcl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051005152935.GE10538@lkcl.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1541 Lines: 39 On Wed, Oct 05 2005, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > 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? :-) Don't think there is one, but if it will take the traffic of this list, I'm sure davem can be quickly convinced to add one! -- 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/