Re: [PATCH] netfilter: use per-cpu recursive lock (v11)

Linus Torvalds
2009-04-21T17:01:55Z

On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>
> Ah a nice day, with Linus giving constructive feedback. Too bad he has
> to channel it out of the dark side.

I already flamed that patch at least once before. People didn't react.

What do I have to do to make people listen? I'm sorry, but I'm not going
to send you flowers with a card saying "Hope you do better next time!".

I realize that the flowers might be friendlier, but I have absolutely no
incentive to be friendly to just bad code. I have even _less_ incentive
when my first "that sucks" is apparently totally ignored. So now I spelled
it out why it sucks, but I sure as hell didn't have any reason to be
polite about it.

Linus