Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin

Bill Davidsen
2002-01-29T22:46:43Z

On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> Ingo, you should have a look at my mailbox and the people sick of trying to
> get Linus to take 3 liners to fix NODEV type stuff and being ignored so that
> 2.5.* still doesn't even compile or boot for many people.
>
> Dave in doing the patch hoovering at least ensures these are picked up. You
> think if this carries on anyone will be running Linus tree in 9 months ?

Linus, I think I hear people you said you trust telling you this... take
the little bits out of band and TRUST people to give you patches which go
in 2.5.x now, not when or if you get to it. Having you approve trivial
stuff is a waste of what you do best, and I think all the versions show
you're not even being effective at that. Don't you HATE looking at
spelling errors, off-by-one logic, corner cases, and stuff like that? Farm
it out and let other people do it, and work on the fun stuff.

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.