Re: Linux 2.6.13

[Jörn Engel]

On Mon, 29 August 2005 22:17:30 +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 20:57, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 17:17 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Paul Mackerras:
> > >   Remove race between con_open and con_close
> > 
> > Hey, I'm the first to report this with the fix and Paul gets the credit?
> > I guess I'll crawl back to my little world (RT) where they actually
> > appreciate me. :-(
> 
> Did you report it or fix it? :>

Doesn't really matter to me.  A good bug report is often 90% of the
work, with the actual fix falling into the misc. category.  Testers
really deserve some credit.  ;)

Ok, many bug reports are also quite useless.  Good testers therefore
deserve even more credit.

Jörn

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The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of
his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full
humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague. 
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