On September 17, 2014 7:20:42 AM EDT, "Robert P. J. Day" <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> wrote: <snip> > > and, as we've all seen, nick's other flaw is that, quite simply, >he's selfish and greedy. his entire obsession is with the output of >checkpatch, which means he wants to grab all the trivial cleanup (the >low-hanging fruit, as it were) for himself, and not leave any for >others. rather than take the time to understand the code, nick wants >checkpatch to do all the work for him. in the end, nick doesn't want >to do any work or understand how the kernel actually works -- he just >wants patches, and he wants them as quickly and cheaply as possible.
Nick and his patches may have plenty of flaws, but I think it is a bit crazy to call his effort to get his first patch into the kernel greedy. >From what little I know he originally started trying to make functional code >changes around various fixme's in the code. Not surprisingly, that took more >overall kernel knowledge than he had. If fixme's were trivial, they would >have been fixed in the first place, not a comment. If Greg KH welcomes code style patches in the staging code as a way for newbies to learn the workflow, then that is a great thing. Greg (not kh) -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
