From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>, Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Those ruddy punctuation fixes
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 23:52:47 -0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030308005241.GA24077@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1047078959.23697.12.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 11:15:59PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Spelling fixes are annoying ways to break patches that provide no
> > user visible value. It also detracts from the character of the
> > code: who wants "drain brammage" to be replaced with "brain dammage"?
> People are actually *doing* things, give them a break.
There's a shitload of patches in the 2.4 commit archives that
mostly still apply. With each iteration of spelling fixes,
it becomes more and more work to weed through these to find
out if things are really applied or not. In the beginning I
used Rusty's 'isapplied' script. Its now pretty much useless,
requiring manual inspection of code on every diff.
Spelling fixes aren't going to get us to 2.6.0 any faster.
There are _dozens_ of known problems, and I'll take patches
fixing real problems over spelling fixes any day.
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-07 23:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-07 7:16 Those ruddy punctuation fixes Dan Kegel
2003-03-07 17:17 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2003-03-07 18:00 ` Dan Kegel
2003-03-07 23:15 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-08 0:52 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2003-03-08 0:04 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-03-08 0:29 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-03-08 1:09 ` Dan Kegel
2003-03-08 2:18 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-03-08 1:08 ` Alan Cox
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-03-05 11:10 Russell King
2003-03-05 11:22 ` John Bradford
2003-03-05 14:18 ` Mike Dresser
2003-03-06 1:50 ` jw schultz
2003-03-06 9:58 ` Russell King
2003-03-06 10:46 ` John Bradford
2003-03-05 12:20 ` Dave Jones
2003-03-06 3:11 ` Steven Cole
2003-03-07 1:04 ` Val Henson
2003-03-07 2:44 ` Steven Cole
2003-03-07 3:33 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-03-07 4:02 ` Steven Cole
2003-03-07 5:11 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-03-07 17:04 ` Hans Reiser
[not found] ` <mailman.1047000901.5238.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2003-03-07 3:07 ` Pete Zaitcev
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