From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754430AbbISMw0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Sep 2015 08:52:26 -0400 Received: from h1446028.stratoserver.net ([85.214.92.142]:43350 "EHLO mail.ahsoftware.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752109AbbISMwY (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Sep 2015 08:52:24 -0400 Subject: Re: First kernel patch (optimization) To: Greg KH , "Theodore Ts'o" , Josh Boyer , Eric Curtin , Austin S Hemmelgarn , Steve Calfee , Valentina Manea , Shuah Khan , USB list , Kernel development list References: <1442346808-3784-1-git-send-email-ericcurtin17@gmail.com> <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> From: Alexander Holler Message-ID: <55FD5A76.1020603@ahsoftware.de> Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 14:52:06 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20150919051827.GB17114@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am 19.09.2015 um 07:18 schrieb Greg KH: > I have been saying for years that we have a lack of real projects / > tasks / ideas for people who are skilled, yet have no idea what to do. > I know of well over a hundred people I have email addresses of that have > asked me for these types of things, and have patches in the kernel that > are non-trivial to prove that they have the skill to do real things. > > It's a real problem, and one that I don't have an answer for. We need > these types of tasks, and I don't have them, and every maintainer I ask > about it also doesn't have them. What we are asking for is people to > somehow come up with tasks on their own, as if they know what needs to > be done. I've recently posted a proof of concept for wiping files, or in other words to really delete files, And it was a disaster because if someone posts imperfect pathhes on this list, people have fun trying to eat you (because they seem bored or whatever). Even posting perfect patches is a game, because there exists always a space, newline or variable name which might be used to start annoying discussions. So, there is no reason to wonder about the lack of such tasks. So even if you don't agree, here as task: wipe files in real. ;) Regards, Alexander Holler