From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from snark.thyrsus.com (snark.tuxedo.org [207.106.50.26]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4027E482A for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 07:36:14 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 09:35:38 -0400 From: "Eric S. Raymond" To: Alan Cox Cc: "Albert D. Cahalan" , Matthew Wilcox , james rich , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, parisc-linux@parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Re: OK, let's try cleaning up another nit. Is anyone paying attention? Message-ID: <20010420093538.A5525@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com References: <200104200452.f3K4q3X07411@saturn.cs.uml.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 02:13:35PM +0100 List-ID: Alan Cox : > I have for one. Its definitely the wrong approach to bomb Linus with patches > when doing the merge of an architecture. All the architecture folk with in > their own trees for good reason. On the other hand, Linus has objected to the One-Big-Patch approach in the past with respect to things like the networking and VM code. How are people to know what the right thing is? -- Eric S. Raymond Love your country, but never trust its government. -- Robert A. Heinlein.