On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 10:05 PM, Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com> wrote:
>
> On Jul 26, 2014, at 7:43 PM, Nick Krause <xerofo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 7:07 AM, Wang Shilong <wangshilong1...@gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Hugo,
>>>>
>>>> Am Samstag, 26. Juli 2014, 11:05:03 schrieb Hugo Mills:
>>>>>> I am not asking to hold my hand
>>>>>
>>>>>  You are, though. Something like using grep to find code that (might
>>>>> be) related to the thing you're trying to work with is _fundamental_.
>>>>> You should expect to be reading the code -- several layers deep, in
>>>>> both directions from any given function -- in order to understand what
>>>>> it does and how it fits in, and what problems you might enncounter if
>>>>> you change it. If you won't put in that degree of basic effort, then
>>>>> you won't get very far.
>>>>
>>>> Actually, from what I read from Nick Krause so far here and on LKML:
>>>>
>>>> Can it be that he is at admittedly quite inventive trolling?
>>>>
>>>> I found none of his posts to be even remotely convincing although he 
>>>> submitted
>>>> a patch elsewhere.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your detailed explaination tough.
>>>
>>> Hugo is one of most reliable and serious man i have known.
>>>
>>> Anyway, Nick if you really want to do something, just follow Hugo, Ted and 
>>> others'
>>> advices. Contributing Btrfs has many ways, try it and report some BUGs, add 
>>> some
>>> regression tests etc are all welcome IMO.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Wang
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> To Nick: If I am mistaken – mea culpa. But your posts just seem to follow 
>>>> what
>>>> I perceive the usual style of something into trolling.
>>>>
>>>> Ciao,
>>>> --
>>>> Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
>>>> GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA  B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7
>>>
>>
>> Fine then I guess I need to read the documentation and other things on my 
>> own.
>
> I don't see how it can work any other way, but my house plant disagrees and 
> wishes to volunteer doing all of this for you. I don't recommend it because 
> Btrfs developers do not need a smart aleck house plant writing kernel code.
>
>> Seems everyone here wants me to figure out everything on my own.
>
> By my reading, not everything, but rather specific things. You need a basic 
> common frame of reference before questions and collaboration are workable. 
> What's a car? Why do I need one? Where would I go? Roads? Wait there are 
> other cars? Traffic signals? Insurance? Fuel? Oy this sounds complicated… I 
> don't think I want or need one of these things.
>
>
>
> Chris Murphy
>
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That's fine I don't find :). Sorry about being lazy in advance, bad habits.
Cheers Nick
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