Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756911AbXEXJpU (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 May 2007 05:45:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755714AbXEXJpI (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 May 2007 05:45:08 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.171]:50763 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755590AbXEXJpG (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 May 2007 05:45:06 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=l/d0IZ5Nlv6r/kMLb7iPhM4RDcleH7dq4GL/oBdTcH0hqYyDKLvmmVqg21y6y8ED9iMWl4LyizKomkZFxQdrLoMPwjKeJ/i3s1V8NtfUehqGCvkSIBwHhh2l69fuStrU4C2CglHgctJE57EpRBJg+Peh4eU/vIwJoqfLDXINDbk= Message-ID: <2cd57c900705240245s5448257ape203deade7812121@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 17:45:04 +0800 From: "Qi Yong" To: "Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu" Subject: Re: [PATCH - 1/1] Documentation/HOWTO Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" , "debian developer" , greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, diegocg@gmail.com, "Linus Torvalds" , "Andrew Morton" In-Reply-To: <10867.1179509181@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <10867.1179509181@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 991ea269a0632f94 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2134 Lines: 59 On 19/05/07, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > On Fri, 18 May 2007 12:01:41 EDT, "Robert P. J. Day" said: > > On Fri, 18 May 2007, debian developer wrote: > > > > -your skills, and other developers will be aware of your presence. Fixing > > > bugs is one of the best ways to get merits among other developers, because > > > not many people like wasting time fixing other people's bugs. > > ^^^^^^^ ^^^^ > > you might want to find a less demeaning term for debugging than > > "wasting time." just a thought. > > Wasn't his text, not his fault. At least his patch is an improvement - now > HOWTO only equates it with "wasting time" once, rather than twice. ;) Hello, This duplicated paragraph problem was introduced by the following two commits. They are one patch actually. bughunting patch adds bug; isn't it a vivid ironic example. and also > +not many people like wasting time fixing other people's bugs. Torvalds, Care to revert one commit? commit 722385f75efd82d9f480f0765a1e97a4d83cac0d Author: Diego Calleja Date: Thu Sep 21 22:37:10 2006 +0200 HOWTO: bug report addition I suspect that not many people is subscribed to the bugzilla mailing list, not surprising since the URLs doesn't seem to be in the tree :) After fixing my english, I wonder if the following patch could be applied... Signed-off-by: Diego Calleja Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman commit 3f27100872b21e4cc70d07b96eeb3611b30bce63 Author: Diego Calleja Date: Sat Sep 30 23:27:49 2006 -0700 [PATCH] HOWTO: mention bughunting Signed-off-by: Diego Calleja Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -- Qi Yong - 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/