From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: <51E97029.9090500@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 09:58:17 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" MIME-Version: 1.0 To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , James Bottomley , ksummit-2013-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman , Darren Hart , Linux Kernel Mailing List , stable , Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] How to act on LKML References: <20130715195316.GF15531@xanatos> <20130715204135.GH15531@xanatos> <1373926109.17876.221.camel@gandalf.local.home> <1373999229.2148.87.camel@dabdike> <20130716211830.GX16780@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1374041689.2036.14.camel@dabdike.svoaero.ru> <1374112865.19894.493.camel@pasglop> <20130719060343.GA16774@linux.vnet.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20130719060343.GA16774@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 07/18/2013 11:03 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote: >> >> Ie. It's a *very good* barrier against maintainers sliding into >> sloppyness. Really, it works. At least with me. >> >> It's easy to take things a bit too much for granted, especially when you >> maintain your own little corner of the world. > > Agreed! Though I must confess that I have shifted from being mostly > worried about people yelling at me to being mostly worried about my own > code yelling at me. Either way, I do find that being worried about some > consequence or another does help me get a better result. > Yes. Linus' little rant from last weekend has had me and the other tip maintainers look at process changes and new tooling, which we probably should have done a while ago... but it just got way too buried on the list of priorities. -hpa