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From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
	"Bhaktipriya Shridhar" <bhaktipriya96@gmail.com>,
	"Daniel Vetter" <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
	"David Airlie" <airlied@linux.ie>,
	"Noralf Trønnes" <noralf@tronnes.org>,
	"Tejun Heo" <tj@kernel.org>,
	"Thierry Reding" <treding@nvidia.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
	"Julia Lawall" <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Subject: Re: GPU-DRM-QXL: Move three assignments in qxl_device_init()
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 15:11:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45c2ad6e-fadc-8d4a-f6bd-ddf8604ec622@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160922100257.GN13620@mwanda>

> Guys, please stop accepting patches from Markus!

I would appreciate a bit more explanation for this request.


> Markus, you always introduce bugs.

I find the wording "always" exaggerated.

It can also happen that I make another programming mistake occasionally.


> I have asked you over and over to stop sending "cleanup patches"
> because you are not careful.

Why would my update suggestion be inappropriate here?


> If you restricted yourself to fixing bugs only then you would maybe fix more
> bugs than you introduce but as it you are making the kernel worse.

Would you like to discuss the statistics for my failure (or success) rate
a bit more so that involved issues can be clarified in a constructive way?

Regards,
Markus

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-22 13:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-22  6:18 [PATCH 0/4] GPU-DRM-QXL: Fine-tuning for three function implementations SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-22  6:20 ` [PATCH 1/4] GPU-DRM-QXL: Use kmalloc_array() in qxl_device_init() SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-22  6:21 ` [PATCH 2/4] GPU-DRM-QXL: Move three assignments " SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-22 10:09   ` Dan Carpenter
2016-09-22 13:11     ` SF Markus Elfring [this message]
2016-09-22 15:46       ` Gerd Hoffmann
2016-09-22 17:16         ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-22 20:24           ` Gerd Hoffmann
2016-09-22 20:24       ` Dan Carpenter
2016-09-23  7:25         ` Sean Paul
2016-09-23  7:53           ` Dave Airlie
2016-09-23  8:50             ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-23 13:30               ` Emil Velikov
2016-09-23 14:23                 ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-23  8:42           ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-23  8:34         ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-22  6:22 ` [PATCH 3/4] GPU-DRM-QXL: Improve a size determination in qxl_driver_load() SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-22  6:23 ` [PATCH 4/4] GPU-DRM-QXL: Adjust checks for null pointers in three functions SF Markus Elfring

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