Re: Linus is on a powertrip..
Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Wed, 30 Sep 1998 09:58:26 +0200 (CEST)
On Tue, 29 Sep 1998 kwrohrer@ce.mediaone.net wrote:
> And lo, Aaron Tiensivu saith unto me:
> > > This is _exactly_ the same thing that made me hate vger when it came to
> > > networking patches. And I'm going to ask David once again to just shut
> > > vger down, because these problems keep on happening.
> > >
> > > Linus
> >
> > You do realize that your powertrip lately is really hurting Linux development.
> Linus is, and has always been, the undisputed final sanity check on what
> goes into the main Linux kernel. Yes this is power, but he doesn't seem
> to be tripping on it at the moment. He is complaining (and rightfully
> so) that patches in vger are not being sent to him in a sane, intelligible
> form, and that people are blaming him for not having the time (and sanity)
> for integrating them anyway. It's people who find problems, understand
> them well enough to write a patch, and DON'T BRING IT TO LINUS, that are
> holding Linux back, if anyone...and I somehow doubt Linus would want
> to call the current CVS snapshot "Linux 2.2.0" anyway, so that "if" goes
> double.
Hey, don't change the facts! It was _Linus_ who told Martin and me _not_ to
send in patches for drivers/video, except for _one_ _large_ patch just before
2.2! And so we did.
The vger policy is to send all things you change to Linus. Architectural
specific code can be buffered. Dave, if this is incorrect, please correct me.
BTW, I have 2 questions for you: 1) How many patches did you send to Linus in
the past? 2) How many non-Intel machines running Linux do you have?
Greetings,
Geert (m68k/PPC/AXP user)
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Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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