From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/20] mem_class: use minor as index instead of searching the array
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:06:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1253052416.11643.523.camel@desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090915213235.GA6968@suse.de>
On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 14:32 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 02:26:46PM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 14:20 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> >
> > > I'll gladly do that, it's trival for me to do so.
> > >
> >
> > What about the other side ? The people who are sending the clean ups,
> > there time is valuable too..
>
> Don't you mean "their"? (hey, I can be nit-picky too...)
Yeah, I'll send you a clean up email for that tomorrow ;)
> And yes, but the engineering model of the kernel development cycle is
> that engineer hours are wasted and thrown away all the time. They are
> surplus, sorry. That's how life works here.
It's like we're driving the SUVs that run on engineering hours ? Just
imagine the electrical power savings you would get if you had 1000 less
emails send to you daily .. But seriously, why waste people time if it
can be prevented ..
Less checkpatch errors, less wasted time, better for the environment..
> > I hope you don't ignore these errors very often ..
>
> More often then you want to know, I have real issues to deal with :)
I'm sure I have no idea..
Daniel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-15 22:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-15 18:12 [GIT PATCH] driver core patches for 2.6.31-git Greg KH
2009-09-15 19:12 ` [PATCH 01/20] Driver core: add new device to bus's list before probing Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-09-15 19:12 ` [PATCH 02/20] Driver core: move dev_get/set_drvdata to drivers/base/dd.c Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-09-15 19:12 ` [PATCH 03/20] Driver core: Add accessor for device platform data Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-09-15 19:12 ` [PATCH 04/20] UIO: remove 'default n' from Kconfig Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-09-15 19:35 ` Hans J. Koch
2009-09-15 19:12 ` [PATCH 05/20] driver model: constify attribute groups Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-09-15 19:12 ` [PATCH 06/20] mem_class: use minor as index instead of searching the array Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-09-15 19:42 ` Daniel Walker
2009-09-15 19:46 ` Kay Sievers
2009-09-15 20:07 ` Daniel Walker
2009-09-15 20:24 ` Greg KH
2009-09-15 21:18 ` Daniel Walker
2009-09-15 21:20 ` Greg KH
2009-09-15 21:26 ` Daniel Walker
2009-09-15 21:32 ` Greg KH
2009-09-15 22:06 ` Daniel Walker [this message]
2009-09-19 15:17 ` Tilman Schmidt
2009-09-19 16:01 ` Daniel Walker
2009-09-15 19:12 ` [PATCH 07/20] mem_class: fix bug Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-09-15 19:12 ` [PATCH 08/20] driver-core: move dma-coherent.c from kernel to driver/base Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-09-15 19:12 ` [PATCH 09/20] uio: add generic driver for PCI 2.3 devices Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-09-15 19:12 ` [PATCH 10/20] Driver core: Add support for compatibility classes Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-09-15 19:12 ` [PATCH 11/20] driver core: platform_device_add_data(): use kmemdup() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-09-15 19:12 ` [PATCH 12/20] hpilo: staging for interrupt handling Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-09-15 19:12 ` [PATCH 13/20] hpilo: add interrupt handler Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-09-15 19:12 ` [PATCH 14/20] hpilo: add poll f_op Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-09-15 19:12 ` [PATCH 15/20] debugfs: Fix mount directory of debugfs by default in events.txt Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-09-15 19:12 ` [PATCH 16/20] debugfs: Change debuhgfs directory of trace-events-sample.h Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-09-15 19:12 ` [PATCH 17/20] debugfs: Change debugfs directory of IWMC3200 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-09-15 19:12 ` [PATCH 18/20] debugfs: Modified default dir of debugfs for debugging UHCI Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-09-15 19:12 ` [PATCH 19/20] debugfs: Modify default debugfs directory for debugging pktcdvd Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-09-15 19:12 ` [PATCH 20/20] Driver Core: devtmpfs - kernel-maintained tmpfs-based /dev Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-09-15 23:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-09-15 23:43 ` Greg KH
2009-09-16 12:45 ` [GIT PATCH] driver core patches for 2.6.31-git Christoph Hellwig
2009-09-16 12:59 ` Greg KH
2009-09-16 13:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-09-16 13:59 ` Kay Sievers
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