From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758228AbYDNKXs (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:23:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757749AbYDNKXf (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:23:35 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:35909 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757658AbYDNKXd (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:23:33 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:22:32 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: David Woodhouse Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Xavier Bestel , Alan Cox , Miklos Szeredi , me@bobcopeland.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] OMFS filesystem version 3 Message-Id: <20080414032232.bc36ba5b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1208167786.31695.34.camel@pmac.infradead.org> References: <20080413080130.GA9622@infradead.org> <20080413012001.8d7967f4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080413082815.GA20108@infradead.org> <1208121358.2700.4.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <20080413154459.4b2f125d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080413234920.63711ca7@core> <20080413161014.cb06964c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1208161859.3596.75.camel@skunk.anacadf.mentorg.com> <20080414014445.5b4a7b22.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080414090945.GA18494@infradead.org> <20080414022108.92ce9b1d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1208167786.31695.34.camel@pmac.infradead.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.5; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:09:46 +0100 David Woodhouse wrote: > On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 02:21 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 05:09:45 -0400 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > > the lastet crap code from the corporate drones. > > > > That's about the fourth time you've made this assertion. It is pointless, > > it is of no use to anyone and it is unjustly insulting to a large number of > > kernel developers. > > No, it isn't. Christoph can be insulting sometimes, but that wasn't it. > > Anyone who thinks that Christoph was referring to them obviously > identifies _themselves_ as 'corporate drone who posts crap code'. > Why is it insulting for Christoph to opine that his time is better spent > on reviewing something fun? > > I find it extremely annoying when people claim offence on behalf of > unspecified third parties, when no real adult actually _is_ so wet as to > have actually been offended. Not so. There is a habit of treating corporate developers as somehow inferior to the purer old-timers. I know - people have told me. Quite often. And for various reasons, those people feel limited in their options for standing up for themselves.