From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: <1374018370.6458.106.camel@gandalf.local.home> Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML (was: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review) From: Steven Rostedt To: Sarah Sharp Cc: David Lang , ksummit-2013-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman , Darren Hart , Olivier Galibert , stable , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Willy Tarreau , Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 19:46:10 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1374017917.6458.103.camel@gandalf.local.home> References: <20130715204135.GH15531@xanatos> <1373926109.17876.221.camel@gandalf.local.home> <20130715223615.GI15531@xanatos> <20130716211235.GG4994@xanatos> <20130716212704.GB9371@thunk.org> <20130716224357.GK4994@xanatos> <1374015299.6458.76.camel@gandalf.local.home> <20130716231217.GL4994@xanatos> <1374017917.6458.103.camel@gandalf.local.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 19:38 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > I'll admit that when I first started sending patches to LKML, I was > terrified. Not because I was afraid of being scolded, but because I was > afraid that what I sent wasn't good. It was a true judgment of my work. > I was prettified. Sure, I wouldn't have liked being insulted, but as OK, this has happened *again*! Really spell check? "pettrified" became "prettified", and not "petrified"???? I just need to spell better :-p Although, I have to admit, getting patches into the kernel has made me prettier ;-) -- Steve > long as there was backing of why my work sucked I would be OK with it. I > actually had a rather good response to my work and I hung around.