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Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 17:22:57 +0200
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1 -- It does not matter who's code gets merged!
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On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 12:05:01AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> I've had several cases myself where I spent quite some time solving a
> problem, just to get some random remark from someone smart on lkml
> saying "if you had done <this simple thing> you would have had <this
> simple and superior solution>". Was I pissed off that my patch didn't
> get merged but that this better approach got picked? NO! The problem
> that I needed to solve got solved in a really good way. Mission
> accomplished.

Hey to me it even happened I had this nice and safe pte-highmem patch
but the buggy highpte was merged instead, go figure. Con got lucky.
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