On Sat, Jan 10, 2026 at 11:02:19AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > On Sat, 2026-01-10 at 15:52 +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 10, 2026 at 09:25:36AM -0600, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > > > I just don't think the word "slop" should be used, because while it > > > may be very clear to you, and may be clearly defined in some > > > communities, me, I'm just guessing what you mean by it. > > > > https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/word-of-the-year > > Just because it's the word of the year this year doesn't mean people > will remember what it means even after a few years. "Rawdog" was the > OED word of the year in 2024 ... that's losing its resonance and who of > the under 30 crowd knows what the 2000 word of the year "chad" means? > The point of the formulation I proposed (without mentioning slop) was > to be generic and retain its meaning over time.
Slop means you produced the patches in such quantity that you don't have time to review the output before sending it. This isn't a totally new thing, people have used clang-format to reformat a whole driver and it's clear they didn't look at the output. Even for bug reports, the truth is that no one reads mass bug reports. I occasionally send mass bug reports if I create a new warning. No one ever reads them. regards, dan carpenter
