From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: CFD: linux-wanking@vger.kernel.org (was [PATCH] Standard indentation of arguments)
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 08:09:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080521120939.GF8581@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080521103206.GA24545@infradead.org>
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 06:32:06AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 01:50:37AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 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.
>
> But I'd like to second the opinion. This is getting a little too far.
> We should rather try to at least enforce very basic standards a lot of
> the crap shoved in doesn't follow instead of wanking around about exact
> placement of whitespaces.
The real question is whether people who are wanking about whitespace
and spelling fixes in comments will graduate to writing real, useful
patches. If they won't, there's no point to encouraging them.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-21 12:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-21 5:58 [PATCH] Standard indentation of arguments Jianjun Kong
2008-05-21 7:19 ` Jiri Slaby
2008-05-21 11:35 ` David Newall
2008-05-21 8:34 ` CFD: linux-wanking@vger.kernel.org (was [PATCH] Standard indentation of arguments) Al Viro
2008-05-21 8:50 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-21 9:19 ` CFD: linux-wanking@vger.kernel.org David Miller
2008-05-21 9:41 ` CFD: linux-wanking@vger.kernel.org (was [PATCH] Standard indentation of arguments) Al Viro
2008-05-21 17:44 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-21 19:45 ` Theodore Tso
2008-05-21 20:38 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-21 20:50 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-21 21:08 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-21 21:12 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-21 21:32 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-22 19:40 ` Jaya Kumar
2008-05-21 10:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-21 12:09 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2008-05-21 17:46 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-21 18:57 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-05-21 19:31 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-21 20:10 ` CFD: linux-wanking@vger.kernel.org David Miller
2008-05-21 21:25 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-05-21 21:44 ` Stefan Richter
2008-05-21 21:56 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-05-21 21:08 ` CFD: linux-wanking@vger.kernel.org (was [PATCH] Standard indentation of arguments) Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-05-21 23:01 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-21 23:17 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-21 23:55 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-22 0:10 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-22 14:31 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-21 23:35 ` Al Viro
2008-05-22 0:38 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-22 1:05 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-22 16:08 ` Stefan Richter
2008-05-21 19:33 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-05-21 19:45 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-05-21 19:54 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-21 20:06 ` Jesper Juhl
2008-05-21 20:27 ` CFD: linux-wanking@vger.kernel.org (was [PATCH] Standard indentation of arguments), " Jonathan Corbet
2008-05-21 20:37 ` Jesper Juhl
2008-05-21 23:46 ` Jesper Juhl
2008-05-22 0:12 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-22 0:32 ` Jesper Juhl
2008-05-22 1:03 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-22 14:56 ` Pavel Machek
2008-05-22 15:29 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-05-22 0:14 ` Al Viro
2008-05-22 0:34 ` Jesper Juhl
2008-05-22 1:07 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-05-22 4:51 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-05-22 5:34 ` david
2008-05-31 16:23 ` Nick Andrew
2008-05-21 19:42 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-05-21 19:47 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-05-21 19:49 ` CFD: linux-wanking@vger.kernel.org David Miller
2008-05-21 22:03 ` Al Viro
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