On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 11:18:07AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > 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.
... and not only that - sending patches to the kernel shouldn't be about the *sending* of patches itself but actually about doing some real improvement to it. Thanks Ingo for hitting the nail on the head! -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine. -- -- 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/