Subject: Re: The direction linux is taking
To: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca (Richard Gooch)
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 18:02:40 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: rmk@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King), alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox),
        riel@conectiva.com.br (Rik van Riel),
        dana.lacoste@peregrine.com (Dana Lacoste),
        linuz_kernel_q@hotmail.com ('Eyal Sohya'),
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
In-Reply-To: <200112271738.fBRHcSd30844@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> from "Richard Gooch" at Dec 27, 2001 10:38:28 AM
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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> So you just do what Linus does: delete those questions without
> replying. No matter what system you use, if you want to avoid an
> overflowing mailbox, you either have to silently drop patches, and/or
> silently drop questions/requests/begging letters. There isn't really
> much difference between the two.

The problem is that if Linus is simply ignoring you then you don't know
why, A simple "Clean up the ifdefs" would make a lot of difference. If
someone sent a patch its because they hit something they felt needed fixing
and as far as they can tell fixed it. If you want them to go elsewhere
ignore them, but its much more useful to give them at least brief answers
to actual patch files
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