* Roman Zippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Don't make such suggestions if you have no idea how insulting they > are. Especially the one deleted insult above where you have the > impertinence to quote it, such tone is more appropriate between lord > and inferior, where the latter have to make a request and the former > "might" grant it. [...]
uhm, [and the uninterested reader might want to skip to the next mail ;-)], i'm really confused about your reply. Do you really mean this: > > Roman, please do me a favor, and ask me the following question: > > > > " Ingo, you've been maintaining the scheduler for years. In fact you > > wrote the old nice code we are talking about here. You changed it a > > number of times since then. So you really know what's going on here. > > Why does the old nice code behave like that for nice +19 levels? " > > > > I've been waiting for that obvious question, and i _might_ be able > > to answer it, but somehow it never occured to you ;-) Thanks, the ";-)" emoticon (and its contents) clearly signals this as a sarcastic, tongue-in-cheek remark. To make it even clearer, please re-read it with the <sarcastic> tag added as well for clarity: > > <sarcastic> > > > > Roman, please do me a favor, and ask me the following question: > > > > " Ingo, you've been maintaining the scheduler for years. In fact you > > wrote the old nice code we are talking about here. You changed it a > > number of times since then. So you really know what's going on here. > > Why does the old nice code behave like that for nice +19 levels? " > > > > I've been waiting for that obvious question, and i _might_ be able > > to answer it, but somehow it never occured to you ;-) Thanks, > > > > </sarcastic> ok? (If you didnt see/read it as sarcastic straight away then my apologies for insulting you!) The "_might_ be able to answer" bit is of course sarcastic too, and contrary to your (i have to say, pretty absurd) suggestion i did not suggest that i "might be _willing_ to answer" - which would be quite arrogant indeed and which i never said or suggested. To make it even clearer: i'm definitely able to answer questions about code i wrote originally and which i just changed, were you to show genuine interest in hearing my opinion :-) Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/