From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-qc0-x22e.google.com (mail-qc0-x22e.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c01::22e]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority" (not verified)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AAFE32C0301 for ; Sat, 2 Mar 2013 05:11:08 +1100 (EST) Received: by mail-qc0-f174.google.com with SMTP id z24so365194qcq.5 for ; Fri, 01 Mar 2013 10:11:03 -0800 (PST) Sender: Tejun Heo Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 10:10:54 -0800 From: Tejun Heo To: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 04/46] percpu_rwlock: Implement the core design of Per-CPU Reader-Writer Locks Message-ID: <20130301181054.GD2481@mtj.dyndns.org> References: <512BBAD8.8010006@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <512C7A38.8060906@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <512CC509.1050000@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <512D0D67.9010609@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <512E7879.20109@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <512E7879.20109@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Lai Jiangshan , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, fweisbec@gmail.com, oleg@redhat.com, Michel Lespinasse , mingo@kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux@arm.linux.org.uk, xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com, wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, rostedt@goodmis.org, rjw@sisk.pl, namhyung@kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vincent.guittot@linaro.org, sbw@mit.edu, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Hello, Srivatsa. On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 02:49:53AM +0530, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: > Don't get me wrong - I'll whole-heartedly acknowledge and appreciate if > _your_ code is better than mine. I just don't like the idea of somebody > plagiarizing my ideas/code (or even others' ideas for that matter). > However, I sincerely apologize in advance if I misunderstood/misjudged your > intentions; I just wanted to voice my concerns out loud at this point, > considering the bad feeling I got by looking at your responses collectively. Although I don't know Lai personally, from my experience working with him past several months on workqueue, I strongly doubt he has dark urterior intenions. The biggest problem probably is that his communication in English isn't very fluent yet and thus doesn't carry the underlying intentions or tones very well and he tends to bombard patches in quick succession without much explanation inbetween (during 3.8 cycle, I was receiving several workqueue patchsets days apart trying to solve the same problem with completely different approaches way before the discussion on the previous postings reach any kind of consensus). A lot of that also probably comes from communication problems. Anyways, I really don't think he's trying to take claim of your work. At least for now, you kinda need to speculate what he's trying to do and then confirm that back to him, but once you get used to that part, he's pretty nice to work with and I'm sure his communication will improve in time (I think it has gotten a lot better than only some months ago). Thanks! -- tejun