On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pi...@linaro.org> wrote: > > It wasted a lot of people's time before by simply being there and wrong > before it was removed. It's only a matter of whose time you want to > waste. Really.
Really. Shut up. The whole "no regressions" thing is very much about the fact that we don't waste users time. We want users to be able to upgrade their kernels, and feel safe in knowing that we as kernel developers did our best - including very much "spending our time" - to make sure that users don't have to waste time. And if you aren't ok with "wasting time" on trying to give that kind of reassurances to users, then you shouldn't be working on the kernel. I'm serious about this. You really *need* to understand that. Your job as a kernel developer is very much to support the users. Not try to make it easy for *you* at the cost of being nasty for *them*. The kernel serves user space. That's what we do. Linus -- 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/