Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754362AbYJBJpc (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2008 05:45:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753004AbYJBJpS (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2008 05:45:18 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.228]:14189 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753038AbYJBJpQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2008 05:45:16 -0400 Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 11:45:11 +0200 From: Domenico Andreoli To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Willy Tarreau , Linux-Kernel Subject: Re: Typo bug [Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc8] Message-ID: <20081002094511.GA25414@tilt.dandreoli.com> Mail-Followup-To: Ingo Molnar , Willy Tarreau , Linux-Kernel References: <20080930094346.307ef1e5@werewolf.home> <20080930075553.GB20241@elte.hu> <20080930100252.22bb4df5@werewolf.home> <20080930080546.GD20241@elte.hu> <20081001213328.GB7115@tilt.dandreoli.com> <20081002052746.GI24654@1wt.eu> <20081002092630.GB9456@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20081002092630.GB9456@elte.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1938 Lines: 49 On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 11:26:30AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Willy Tarreau wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 11:33:28PM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:05:46AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > > > > > * J.A. Magall?n wrote: > > > > > > > > > > heh. Could you send a patch with a changelog please? > > > > > > > > > > Here it goes...I hope its right. > > > > > > > > applied to tip/x86/urgent, thanks! > > > > > > Ingo, why did you require a patch? Was not it really more simple and > > > easy for everyone to write it yourself? Since I am sure it was not only > > > a laziness matter (really?), I am very curious to know the reason. > > > > I see two things : > > - preserve authorship of the code > > - "laziness" as you call it, is the only way to scale for a maintainer. > > yeah, correct. Also, i asked (not required) J.A. Magall?n whether he > could send a patch - if he didnt (no time, etc.) i'd have fixed it > myself (crediting him in the changelog). yes, asked. sorry. > But it's also a general principle: maintainers dont 'own' the code in > any way and there should be no assymetry in the ability to modify the > code. So if people are willing to fix bugs they notice, i prefer that > far more than me doing it. I think I got the lesson although the assymetry matter is still not that clear to me. Anyway I also know that when you talk about code you prefer patches to plain english so I expect you'd like others do the same ;) Thank you, Domenico -----[ Domenico Andreoli, aka cavok --[ http://www.dandreoli.com/gpgkey.asc ---[ 3A0F 2F80 F79C 678A 8936 4FEE 0677 9033 A20E BC50 -- 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/