Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 02:54:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 02:53:55 -0500 Received: from dsl-213-023-038-145.arcor-ip.net ([213.23.38.145]:30094 "EHLO starship.berlin") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 02:53:46 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Daniel Phillips To: Oliver Xymoron Subject: Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 08:58:38 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Cc: linux-kernel In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On January 30, 2002 08:41 am, Oliver Xymoron wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > > Exactly. The successor patch to the 'kind of gross' patch got rid of the > > double-pointers, it was the proper fix, though there is still no excuse for > > leaving the bug hanging around while coming up with the better version. > > The gross fixes tend to get dropped because if they're in, the proper fix > loses priority. FIXMEs can take many years to fix. The problem seems not > to be the dropping of the patch so much as the dropping of the bug report > and bug tracking is an altogether different problem. The problem was the dropping of the patch. A bunch of things contributed to it, and at this point I believe the main one was having no patch submission system. I should know, I was on the dirty end of this stick. -- Daniel - 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/