Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757750AbYGPEWu (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:22:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750971AbYGPEWm (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:22:42 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:51995 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750772AbYGPEWm (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:22:42 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:21:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Tiago Assumpcao cc: Casey Schaufler , Theodore Tso , pageexec@freemail.hu, Greg KH , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org Subject: Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.25.10 In-Reply-To: <487D756E.50506@assumpcao.org> Message-ID: References: <487D3C17.31467.1C3C0441@pageexec.freemail.hu> <487D3A13.3040507@assumpcao.org> <20080716010836.GL8185@mit.edu> <487D547C.7060909@assumpcao.org> <487D6AB9.7080700@schaufler-ca.com> <487D756E.50506@assumpcao.org> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1235 Lines: 30 On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Tiago Assumpcao wrote: > > You do not hesitate in categorizing yourself as something as obscure as... > what's that term again? "Expert". But then you fail on basic pragmatism when > attempting to define what, nearly always, is a true or false question? I would suggest you maintain your own kernel version, since you're so obviously more competent at it than we are. Then, when you inevitably show your superiority, people will start using your version of the kernel. That's the point of open source, after all. It keeps us all honest - at any point, we can be overtaken by somebody better. I've actually been waiting for this moment for over fifteen years now: finding that person who can take over so that I don't have to bother any more. I'll continue to do my own maintenance in parallel while you get up to speed, but I expect that everybody will have dropped my feeble efforts soon enough, so you can probably just ignore that. Thanks, Linus -- 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/