From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264394AbTLVM3u (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Dec 2003 07:29:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264400AbTLVM3u (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Dec 2003 07:29:50 -0500 Received: from mtvcafw.SGI.COM ([192.48.171.6]:23047 "EHLO rj.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264394AbTLVM3s (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Dec 2003 07:29:48 -0500 Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 04:32:54 -0800 From: Paul Jackson To: William Lee Irwin III Cc: pj@sgi.com, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ioe-lkml@rameria.de Subject: Re: [PATCH] another minor bit of cpumask cleanup Message-Id: <20031222043254.0db129a9.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20031222085752.GB27687@holomorphy.com> References: <20031221180044.0f27eca1.pj@sgi.com> <20031221224745.268db46d.akpm@osdl.org> <20031221231918.34fcca86.pj@sgi.com> <20031222085752.GB27687@holomorphy.com> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.10claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org wli wrote: > so as to counter the implication that all I did back then was > crap gibberish all over the tree Sorry you're feeling picked on and under appreciated. It really doesn't matter to me by whom or how this came to be. More than once in my career, I have cleaned up some stuff, then out of curiosity gone back to see who might have written such crap -- only to discover it was I. I've learned to not ask such questions. Just keep on trying to make things better. We are working on a large and ever changing body of code with thousands of others active at any point. The opportunities for refinement and improvement are endless. Don't sweat how we got here; those who have done the most (such as yourself) probably have created the most "opportunities" for further refinment. Just judge each change on its current merits, and on whether it moves in the right long term directions. See further: Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming http://builder.com.com/5100-6404-1045782.html -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.650.933.1373