Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760574AbXHBUGo (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 16:06:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758680AbXHBUGg (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 16:06:36 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:51910 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753445AbXHBUGf (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 16:06:35 -0400 Subject: Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1 -- It does not matter who's code gets merged! From: Arjan van de Ven To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" Cc: Hua Zhong , "'Carlo Florendo'" , "'Roman Zippel'" , "'Linus Torvalds'" , "'jos poortvliet'" , "'Michael Chang'" , "'Kasper Sandberg'" , "'Linux Kernel Mailing List'" In-Reply-To: References: <200707282003.45142.jos@mijnkamer.nl> <200707282128.39906.jos@mijnkamer.nl> <46B01E3F.6050401@gmail.com> <005001c7d403$8d7601a0$a86204e0$@com> <1185951901.2754.12.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Intel International BV Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:05:38 -0700 Message-Id: <1186085138.2728.4.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.3 (2.10.3-2.fc7) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1292 Lines: 29 On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 16:03 -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: > Arjan van de Ven writes: > > > [...] > > It does not matter [whose] code gets merged. > > What matters is that the problem gets solved and that the Linux kernel > > innovates forward. > > [...] > > This attitude has risks over the long term, if outsiders with fresh > ideas are discouraged. Risking becoming known to defer too much to > established maintainers, those fresh ideas may stop coming to linux. My concern is that only "get my line of code merged" is seen as "the ultimate thing". It's more than that. Linux is about collaboration, where it matters more that people work together to solve a problem, far far more than who actually types the lines in on the keyboard. Working on the problem should be seen (and recognized) as the right thing. Who writes the code is secundary to that. -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com Test the interaction between Linux and your BIOS via http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org - 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/