Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML (was: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review)

Dan Carpenter
2013-07-17T07:46:44Z

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 04:15:55PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> "Your code breaks the build for every platform. Would you please kindly
> consider fixing it ?"

Something like this: https://lists.launchpad.net/ac100/msg01040.html

"small typo here."

Marc, was obviously dripping with sarcasm when he wrote that, but it
was completely lost on the patch submitter. I've done that too
where I asked "Are you sure you want to call schedule() while
holding a spinlock()?" It ended up becoming flame fest and it could
have been avoided if I had said, "You are not allowed to call
shedule() while holding a spinlock."

Also instead of saying "Your code is crap", I prefer to say "This
patch is crap." I suspect the submitters secretly know I think they
are crap too along with their code, but it's important to maintain
the facade. :)

One other thing which is tricky is if there is someone whose patches
are so worthless it's just a waste of time. There have been a
couple times where I've told people to stop submitting patches until
they have a few more years of programming experience.

regards,
dan carpenter