Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 17:46:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 17:46:33 -0500 Received: from tmr-02.dsl.thebiz.net ([216.238.38.204]:32529 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 17:46:25 -0500 Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 17:45:06 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Davidsen To: Alan Cox cc: Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Alan Cox wrote: > Ingo, you should have a look at my mailbox and the people sick of trying to > get Linus to take 3 liners to fix NODEV type stuff and being ignored so that > 2.5.* still doesn't even compile or boot for many people. > > Dave in doing the patch hoovering at least ensures these are picked up. You > think if this carries on anyone will be running Linus tree in 9 months ? Linus, I think I hear people you said you trust telling you this... take the little bits out of band and TRUST people to give you patches which go in 2.5.x now, not when or if you get to it. Having you approve trivial stuff is a waste of what you do best, and I think all the versions show you're not even being effective at that. Don't you HATE looking at spelling errors, off-by-one logic, corner cases, and stuff like that? Farm it out and let other people do it, and work on the fun stuff. -- bill davidsen CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. - 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/