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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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On Wed, 21 May 2008 08:09:39 -0400 Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:

> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 06:32:06AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 01:50:37AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > Oh, what a marvellous way to encourage new contributors that was. Thank
> > > you so much.
> > > 
> > > For the record: Al speaks only for himself and a lack of expressed
> > > disagrement from others should not be taken as agreement.
> > 
> > But I'd like to second the opinion.  This is getting a little too far.
> > We should rather try to at least enforce very basic standards a lot of
> > the crap shoved in doesn't follow instead of wanking around about exact
> > placement of whitespaces.
> 
> The real question is whether people who are wanking about whitespace
> and spelling fixes in comments will graduate to writing real, useful
> patches.  If they won't, there's no point to encouraging them.
> 

Guys, get a clue.  It doesn't matter what that person did.  It is the
effect upon *all* other potential developers which is so damaging here.
Not upon this individual.