From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934008AbYD3Wlx (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:41:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757498AbYD3Wlm (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:41:42 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:48222 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752097AbYD3Wll (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:41:41 -0400 Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:41:24 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Linus Torvalds Cc: rjw@sisk.pl, davem@davemloft.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jirislaby@gmail.com Subject: Re: Slow DOWN, please!!! Message-Id: <20080430154124.7ec08dd4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20080429.190352.137408408.davem@davemloft.net> <200804302245.50817.rjw@sisk.pl> <200805010023.32213.rjw@sisk.pl> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-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 List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:31:22 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds wrote: > Any suggestions on how to convince people that their code is not worth > merging? Raise the quality. Then the volume will automatically decrease. Which leads us to... the volume isn't a problem per-se. The problem is quality. It's the fact that they vary inversely which makes us say "slow down". So David's Subject: should have been "Do Better, please". Slowing down is just a side-effect. And, we expect, a tool. We should be discussing how to raise the quality of our work.