Re: On community influencing (was Re: [PATCH v8 2/2] rust: add dma coherent allocator abstraction.)

Simona Vetter
2025-02-10T07:52:55Z

On Fri, Feb 07, 2025 at 02:49:50PM +0100, Simona Vetter wrote:
> When you're that harmful with your calling out, eventually I'm going to be
> fed up, and you get a live round shot across your bow. And if that then
> causes you to ragequit, because you can't actually deal with the heat
> you've been dishing out coming back around the corner:
>
> Fuck off.

With some sleep, a w/e and slightly less ill temper: As I'd say in Swiss
German, this was suboptimal wording. Or in plain English, a disaster, I
screwed up.

I do not rescind the sentiment I expressed though. I cannot stand people
who punch where they're stronger, and eschew conflict and fold the moment
someone hits back.

> Or as Dave Airlie put it upthread in this conversation:
>
> "Being toxic on the right side of an argument is still toxic, [...]"

The irony has not entirely escaped me. Oh well.

Remorsefully, Sima
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Simona Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation