Re: [PATCH] v4l2: Change call of function in videobuf2-core.c

[Nick Krause]

On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 1:38 AM, Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 4 August 2014 15:03, Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 08/04/2014 05:25 AM, Nicholas Krause wrote:
>>> This patch changes the call of vb2_buffer_core to use VB2_BUFFER_STATE_ACTIVE
>>> inside the for instead of not setting in correctly to VB2_BUFFER_STATE_ERROR.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Krause <xerofoify@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Dunno what's going on here after reading Dave Airlie's reply, but:
>>
>
> Nick has decided he wants to be a kernel developer, a laudable goal.
>
> He however has decided not to take any advice given to me by a number of other
> kernel developers on how to work on the kernel. So instead he sends random
> broken patches to random subsystems in the hope that one will slip past a sleepy
> maintainer and end up in the kernel.
>
> He isn't willing to spend his own time learning anything, he is
> expecting that kernel
> developers want to spoon feed someone who sends them broken patches.
>
> We've asked him to stop, he keeps doing it, then when caught out apologizes
> with something along the lines, of I'm trying to learn, "idiot
> mistake", despite having
> been told to take a step back and try and learn how the kernel works.
>
> Now we have to waste more maintainer time making sure nobody accidentally
> merges anything he sends.
>
> Dave.
All of my merges are not in the main kernel and have been revoked.
Cheers Nick
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