From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Subject: Re: [RFC][patch 1/4] Network namespaces: cleanup of dev_base list use Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 10:54:45 -0600 Message-ID: References: <20060626134945.A28942@castle.nmd.msu.ru> <44A0D755.5090204@sw.ru> <44A149F5.2060204@sw.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Andrey Savochkin , dlezcano@fr.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, serue@us.ibm.com, haveblue@us.ibm.com, clg@fr.ibm.com, Andrew Morton , herbert@13thfloor.at, devel@openvz.org, sam@vilain.net, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk Return-path: Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:5560 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161208AbWF0Qz4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jun 2006 12:55:56 -0400 To: Kirill Korotaev In-Reply-To: <44A149F5.2060204@sw.ru> (Kirill Korotaev's message of "Tue, 27 Jun 2006 19:08:37 +0400") Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Kirill Korotaev writes: > This doesn't support anything. e.g. I caught quite a lot of bugs after Ingo > Molnar, but this doesn't make his code "poor". People are people. > Anyway, I would be happy to see the typo. Look up thread. You replied to the message where I commented on it. There are two ways to argue this. - It is the linux kernel development style to do small simple obviously patches that copy the maintainer of the code you are changing. - Explain why that is the style. The basic idea is that on a simple patch that is well described, it is trivial to check and trivial to verify. Eric