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Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 18:25:35 +0100
From: Erik Mouw <J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: The direction linux is taking
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On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 03:11:01PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Russell King wrote:
> 
> > I envy Alan, Linus, and Marcelo for having the ability to silently
> > drop patches and wait for resends.
> 
> I'm not going to resend more than twice. If after that
> a critical bugfix isn't applied, I'll put it in our
> kernel RPM and the rest of the world has tough luck.

There is a difference between critical bugfixes and patches that don't
do the Right Thing [tm]. I've never seen Russell dropping the former.


Erik

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