Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin

Dave Jones
2002-01-30T12:30:08Z

On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 01:21:09AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> A "small stuff" maintainer may indeed be a good idea. The maintainer could
> be the same as somebody who does bigger stuff too, but they should be
> clearly different things - trivial one-liners that do not add anything
> new, only fix obvious stuff (to the point where nobody even needs to think
> about it - if I'd start getting any even halfway questionable patches from
> the "small stuff" maintainer, it wouldn't work).

The difficult part comes when slightly larger changesets are needed,
just to make things compile again for some people.
See yesterdays subsection changes from Keith I forwarded you for
example. To me, it had looked fine, it had good discussion on
l-k, and it solved a known problem. I was surprised you threw it
back for more changes (but glad, I want the best solution too, and
taking a quick glance to the mail I've not read yet, it looks like
Keith has bettered his original solution).

Most of the bits I've sent you so far have been "small stuff".
And things will likely continue to be so. There are large chunks
in my tree, but I've absolutely no intention of feeding you those.
Things like the input layer/console layer reworking are the
responsibility of $maintainer to push your way.

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