* Joe Perches <j...@perches.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2013-11-19 at 10:24 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > I'll take a proper cleanup, > > but just whitespace... just pointless churn. > > What in your view would be "a proper cleanup" for a20.c?
If a newbie does a meaningful, complete, well done cleanup patch then congratulations and any such help is welcome. If you as a more experienced kernel developer do a cleanup as part of some real work then sure, all such cleanups are welcome and they are a natural part of development work. So a standalone cleanup patch to a20.c from _you_ would probably not qualify, almost by definition: your first patch was applied 7 years ago, you are by far not a newbie anymore, yet you seem to be mostly stuck on the 'cleanups and trivialities' level! Sheesh! My message to the buerocrat Joe Perches is: please leave trivial and printk patches to newbies, you need to raise to the next level of kernel development already. FYI, Linux is a meritocracy, not a bureaucracy: creating self-serving churn and attention-seeking but unimportant patches is not the way to gain kernel development credibility long term, and eventually people start protecting against your increasing abuse of the development process. IMHO. Thanks, Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/