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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: question about kref API
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 17:45:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <35480.1406151916@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 23 Jul 2014 17:55:50 -0000." <4E5779AD88B2F040B8A7E83ECF544D1A533A75@SJCPEX01CL02.citrite.net>

On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 17:55:50 -0000, Jeff Haran said:
> > From: 'Greg KH' [mailto:greg at kroah.com]
> > > If you could elaborate on where the race condition is here, I think
> > > you'd being doing both me and the community a great service.
> >
> > Nice try with the "Do it for the community because I don't understand this!"
> > appeal, that doesn't work for me, sorry...
>
> Boy, I try to be as deferential as possible here and you come back with this snarky response.
>
> My experience is when software developers can't or won't explain how their
> code works, it's because they don't understand it themselves.

On the other hand, the kernel community does expect you to do a large chunk of
the learning for yourself - first, because Greg KH isn't a scalable resource,
and second, because if you take the time to figure it out for yourself,
you'll understand it better than if Greg walked you through it.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-07-23 21:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-22  0:27 question about kref API Jeff Haran
2014-07-22  2:18 ` Greg KH
2014-07-22 17:25   ` Jeff Haran
2014-07-22 23:47     ` Greg KH
2014-07-23 17:33       ` Jeff Haran
2014-07-23 17:38         ` Jeff Haran
2014-07-23 17:48         ` 'Greg KH'
2014-07-23 17:55           ` Jeff Haran
2014-07-23 18:32             ` 'Greg KH'
2014-07-23 21:45             ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu [this message]

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