Re: [announce] CFS-devel, performance improvements

Arjan van de Ven
2007-09-14T14:58:19Z

On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:50:22 +0200 (CEST)
Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>
> > > This is ridiculous, I asked you multiple times to explain to me
> > > some of the differences relative to CFS as response to the splitup
> > > requests. Not once did you react, you didn't even ask what I'd
> > > like to know specifically.
> >
> > Roman,
> >
> > this is... a strange comment. It almost sounds like you were holding
> > the splitup hostage depending on some other thing happening....
> > that's not a good attitude in my book. Having big-blob patches that
> > do many things at the same time leads to them being impossible to
> > apply. Linux works by having smaller incrementals. You know that;
> > you've been around for a long time.
>
> There is actually a very simple reason for that, the actual patch is
> not my primary focus,

for someone who's not focused on patches/code, you make quite a bit of
noise when someone does turn your discussion into smaller patches and
only credits you three times.