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From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
To: Ray Lee <ray-lk@madrabbit.org>
Subject: Re: [git pull] IDE fixes
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:58:59 +0200
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Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On Thursday 23 April 2009 00:02:38 Ray Lee wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
> <bzolnier@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 22 April 2009 21:55:03 Joe Perches wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 21:43 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> >> > IMO we should just remove extra commas and add some whitespaces.
> >>
> >> Your choice.
> >> Ignore, reject, accept, improve, fine by me.
> >>
> >> > I have also more general (process oriented) comment:
> >> >
> >> > All patches have been posted to linux-kernel or linux-ide for review before
> >> > and it is _much_ more efficient to raise issues (including CodingStyle ones)
> >> > during "review phase" instead of during "push to Linus" phase.
> >>
> >> Maybe for you, but I'm an intermittent
> >> and random reader.
> >
> > For everybody involved in the process -- this includes you.
> >
> > I'm not the original author of many patches so I simply cannot be
> > correcting every single issue because:
> >
> > a) it is physically impossible
> >
> > b) it doesn't really educate people
> 
> His point is that you can queue a follow-up patch to remove the
> ugliness. Just because it didn't get caught until the push stage
> doesn't mean the code needs to stay set in stone for the rest of
> eternity.

I get his point and of course patches are welcomed.

However my point is that it is still suboptimal way to address
the issue in the long-term and from my perspective the long-term
is what really matters.

Thanks,
Bart
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