From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764368AbYEUJTc (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 May 2008 05:19:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754008AbYEUJTY (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 May 2008 05:19:24 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:59049 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753795AbYEUJTX (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 May 2008 05:19:23 -0400 Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 02:19:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20080521.021919.52247763.davem@davemloft.net> To: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: CFD: linux-wanking@vger.kernel.org From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20080521015037.add0b78e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <12113495282137-git-send-email-kongjianjun@gmail.com> <20080521083413.GM28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20080521015037.add0b78e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) 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 From: Andrew Morton Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 01:50:37 -0700 > On Wed, 21 May 2008 09:34:13 +0100 Al Viro wrote: > > > This is a call for discussion for new maillist on vger. > > > > List name: linux-wanking@vger.kernel.org > > Oh, what a marvellous way to encourage new contributors that was. Thank > you so much. > > For the record: Al speaks only for himself and a lack of expressed > disagrement from others should not be taken as agreement. > > Sheesh. Al may not have expressed himself the most pleasant way, but I do agree on some fundamental level with him. There is way to much useless crap being discussed on this list, and this is a list where the signal level is of an utmost importance for the lists usability. After deleting all of the noise posted here, I'm often too burnt out to do real work with what's left and just delete that too. :-/ It's worse than the postmaster and list owner mail I process each day for vger.kernel.org Wouldn't you like me to instead have the energy left to review some useful patches? As one example, coding style is important and has it's place, but some of these threads get way out of hand. I don't give a flying crap how people want to tab their code when I have some OOPS reports and bug fixes to process! The priorities are often all wrong, and this isn't the place for inversed prioriries. In that sense Al is totally right on the money. At times you'd think there wasn't even a kernel newbies list.