From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: getting rid of "fs_initcall" from drivers/ code
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:54:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080806135404.GJ2055@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0808052206430.20743@localhost.localdomain>
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 10:51:53PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> ah ... so after being condescending and snotty to me in your previous
> posting here when i suggested that some cleanup could be done, you've
> responded to my followup post and admitted that ... some cleanup could
> be done.
If you intended to communicate "some cleanup could be done", you failed
massively. What I received was "I'm going to tell those idiotic driver
writers how they should write their code".
Robert, do you ever intend to move away from these "How things SHOULD be
done" patches? Do you ever intend to fix a bug or implement a new
feature?
--
Intel are signing my paycheques ... these opinions are still mine
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-06 13:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-06 2:07 getting rid of "fs_initcall" from drivers/ code Robert P. J. Day
2008-08-06 2:25 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-08-06 2:27 ` Robert P. J. Day
2008-08-06 2:47 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-08-06 2:51 ` Robert P. J. Day
2008-08-06 7:30 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-08-06 10:02 ` Robert P. J. Day
2008-08-06 12:09 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-08-06 13:54 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
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