From: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>
To: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
xi.wang@gmail.com, nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel/sysctl_binary.c: improve the usage of return value 'result'
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2013 14:24:05 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5201E805.2080008@asianux.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5201E192.7060108@huawei.com>
On 08/07/2013 01:56 PM, Li Zefan wrote:
>>> The right answer to the code is to config it out and then you don't have
>>> to worry about it one way or another.
>>>
>>
>> Pardon?
>>
>> Excuse me, my English is not quite well, I don't quite understand your
>> meaning, could you please repeat again in details or say more clearly ?
>>
>>
>>> The sysctl binary path has never been properly maintained and I don't
>>> intend to start. But I will spend 5 minutes to say this patch seems to
>>> make the code worse not better.
>>>
>>
>> I guess no one ever invited you to maintain this file (for just as you
>> said, this file will be removed), so don't worry about it.
>>
>> Hmm... do you mean you spend 5 minutes to get a conclusion ? if so,
>> better not use word 'seems' which is not a suitable word appeared in
>> the results, proofs or conclusions.
>>
>
> To be honest...
>
> You are too bad in english to do kernel development. You don't seem to
> know how to communicate in english...
>
So I should improve my English, and now I am just trying improving.
At least, it is not an excuse to leave upstream kernel development, is
it right ? or do you have additional ideas or suggestions ?
> And people easily get frustrated or even pissed off when discussing with
> you. That's why tglx descided to put your emails into /dev/null...
>
If any member won't discuss with me because of my bad English, and put
my e-mail into "/dev/null", I can understand, and say sorry to them.
So I really need thank the members who still want to discuss with me.
Do you still want to discuss with me ? if not, please put my e-mail
into "/dev/null", I really can understand, and say sorry to you.
Thanks.
>> At least, one conclusion is: this patch switches from old-style to
>> new-style, not for optimization.
>>
>> But for sysctl_getname() and "checkpatch.pl" of this patch, better to
>> get more discussion.
>>
>> Is it OK ?
>
>
>
--
Chen Gang
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-07 6:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-06 7:29 [PATCH] kernel/sysctl_binary.c: improve the usage of return value 'result' Chen Gang
2013-08-06 21:43 ` Andrew Morton
2013-08-06 22:11 ` Joe Perches
2013-08-07 3:53 ` Chen Gang
2013-08-06 22:13 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-08-07 5:28 ` Chen Gang F T
2013-08-07 5:11 ` Chen Gang
2013-08-06 21:46 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-08-07 5:07 ` Chen Gang
2013-08-07 5:56 ` Li Zefan
2013-08-07 6:10 ` Joe Perches
2013-08-07 6:29 ` Chen Gang
2013-08-07 6:42 ` Li Zefan
2013-08-07 6:42 ` Li Zefan
2013-08-07 6:57 ` Chen Gang
2013-08-07 6:24 ` Chen Gang [this message]
2013-08-07 6:29 ` Andrew Morton
2013-08-07 6:34 ` Chen Gang
2013-08-07 7:02 ` Li Zefan
2013-08-07 8:03 ` Chen Gang
2013-08-07 8:44 ` Li Zefan
2013-08-07 9:13 ` Chen Gang
2013-08-07 7:45 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-08-07 10:25 ` Chen Gang
2013-08-07 18:38 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-08-08 3:19 ` Chen Gang
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