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

Andi Kleen
2002-01-29T21:57:11Z

Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:

> > If a patch gets ignored 33 times in a row then perhaps the person doing
> > the patch should first think really hard about the following 4 issues:
>
> Lots of the stuff getting missed is tiny little fixes, obvious 3 or 4 liners.
> The big stuff is not the problem most times. That stuff does get ripped to

"Most times". For example the EA patches have badly failed so far, just because
Linus ignored all patches to add sys call numbers for a repeatedly discussed
and stable API and nobody else can add syscall numbers on i386.

-Andi