From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934074AbbI1O02 (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Sep 2015 10:26:28 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:55776 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933413AbbI1O0Z (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Sep 2015 10:26:25 -0400 Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 07:20:35 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Thiago Farina Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" , Kernel development list Subject: Re: First kernel patch (optimization) Message-ID: <20150928142035.GF20559@kroah.com> References: <55F95671.6060405@gmail.com> <20150916132426.GA7420@kroah.com> <20150916164031.GH7394@thunk.org> <20150918031251.GA30905@thunk.org> <20150918074248.GA10792@kroah.com> <20150919022624.GB2921@thunk.org> <20150919051827.GB17114@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 03:54:20AM -0300, Thiago Farina wrote: > And many maintainers of open source projects that I know off, are not > very welcome to cleanup patches, especially when the project is > mature. They just call it churn and turn it down. Then those are not very mature developers as code cruft always needs to be culled and cleaned on an active project, otherwise it gets harder to work with over time, as others have already pointed out on this thread. thanks, greg k-h