From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 04/46] percpu_rwlock: Implement the core design of Per-CPU Reader-Writer Locks Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2013 01:29:21 +0530 Message-ID: <51310899.1090308@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <512BBAD8.8010006@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <512C7A38.8060906@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <512CC509.1050000@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <512D0D67.9010609@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <512E7879.20109@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20130301181054.GD2481@mtj.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Lai Jiangshan , Michel Lespinasse , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, fweisbec@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, namhyung@kernel.org, mingo@kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux@arm.linux.org.uk, xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com, wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, rostedt@goodmis.org, rjw@sisk.pl, vincent.guittot@linaro.org, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, oleg@redhat.com, sbw@mit.edu, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org To: Tejun Heo Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20130301181054.GD2481@mtj.dyndns.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Hi Tejun, On 03/01/2013 11:40 PM, Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, Srivatsa. > > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 02:49:53AM +0530, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: >> Don't get me wrong - I'll whole-heartedly acknowledge and appreciate if >> _your_ code is better than mine. I just don't like the idea of somebody >> plagiarizing my ideas/code (or even others' ideas for that matter). >> However, I sincerely apologize in advance if I misunderstood/misjudged your >> intentions; I just wanted to voice my concerns out loud at this point, >> considering the bad feeling I got by looking at your responses collectively. > > Although I don't know Lai personally, from my experience working with > him past several months on workqueue, I strongly doubt he has dark > urterior intenions. The biggest problem probably is that his > communication in English isn't very fluent yet and thus doesn't carry > the underlying intentions or tones very well and he tends to bombard > patches in quick succession without much explanation inbetween (during > 3.8 cycle, I was receiving several workqueue patchsets days apart > trying to solve the same problem with completely different approaches > way before the discussion on the previous postings reach any kind of > consensus). A lot of that also probably comes from communication > problems. > > Anyways, I really don't think he's trying to take claim of your work. > At least for now, you kinda need to speculate what he's trying to do > and then confirm that back to him, but once you get used to that part, > he's pretty nice to work with and I'm sure his communication will > improve in time (I think it has gotten a lot better than only some > months ago). > Thank you so much for helping clear the air, Tejun! I'm truly sorry again for having drawn the wrong conclusions based on gaps in our communication. It was a mistake on my part and I would like to request Lai to kindly forgive me. I'm looking forward to working with Lai effectively, going forward. Thank you! Regards, Srivatsa S. Bhat