Re: linux-next requirements (Was: Re: [tip:x86/ptrace] ptrace: Addsupport for generic PTRACE_GETREGSET/PTRACE_SETREGSET)

[Al Viro]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 07:52:14PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 09:45:52AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> > The solution? Stop this anti-real-world-usage bias already. Stop pretending 
> > that those cross-build results are as important as say the thousands of real 
> > bugzilla entries we have. They are fine info, but the kind of priority you are 
> > giving them is causing a waste of resources.
> 
> Ho-hum...  "Kernel won't build for several thousand boxen"...  "Five lines
> contain trailing whitespace"...  Yup, the latter is far higher priority,
> all right.

IOW, I'd buy that argument from somebody who didn't protect checkpatch.pl
wankers against exactly that kind of criticism.
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