Re: BK, deltas, snapshots and fate of -pre...

Rusty Russell
2002-04-22T06:32:13Z

On Sun, 21 Apr 2002 00:05:27 -0400 (EDT)
Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> wrote:

> As one of the guys who doesn't use BK _and_ had submitted a lot of patches
> since Linus had started using it, I'm probably qualified to tell whether it
> hurts or not, right? Well, it doesn't. So far the only difference was
> in the quality (and latency) of changelogs and that was definitely welcome.

"me too". Actually, I found it easier to get the Trivial patches in, and
about the same for per-cpu and futex patches. I don't bk.

When patches didn't go in, it's more due to Mingo Theorum[1] than being
non-bk. And that's a Good Thing for calibrating my coding tastes upwards.

Rusty.
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