Re: [PATCH trivial] include/linux/gfp.h: Improve the coding styles

From: Theodore Ts'o
Date: Sun Feb 28 2016 - 17:23:44 EST


On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 08:47:23AM +0800, Chen Gang wrote:
>
> Excuse me, when I sent this patch, I did not know who I shall send to, I
> have to reference to "./scripts/get_maintainer.pl".
>
> If any members have no time to care about it (every members' time are
> really expensive), please let me know (can reply directly).

Yes, everybody's time is very expensive. So why are you wasting it
all with a "last post wins" style of argumentation? A maintainer has
NAK'ed it. Please drop this.

There is a reason why whitespace fixes are often consider to have
extreme negative value, and a deep suspicion that people are doing
this just to say that they have a patch in the kernel, perhaps in the
misapprehension that this will help them get a job.

Let me say that if I were a hiring manager, and I did a Google search
on a potential job application, and came across a thread like this, my
reaction would be extremely negative.

- Ted