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    SubjectRe: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs
    On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 07:46:49PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
    > On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 08:30:35PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
    > > There is this silly limit that noone can work more than 168 hours per
    > > week on the Linux kernel, and some kernel developers seem to take the
    > > liberty of spending even less time on kernel development...
    >
    > That limit of 168 hours applies all around the world to everyone.
    > Moreover, not all kernel developers are employed to hack on the
    > kernel for 168 hours a week.
    >
    > For me, personally, that figure is in reality about 24 hours a
    > week. Yes, just 24. The rest of the time (like *now*) is time I'm
    > volunteering because I happen to be reading my email...
    >
    > ... and happen to be wasting replying to discussions like this rather
    > than reading that message which has just arrived on the ARM kernel
    > mailing list from someone having problems using copy_from_user()
    > with a kernel pointer.
    >
    > So, please, stop this idea that somehow kernel developers can
    > somehow spend infinite amounts of time solving lots and lots of
    > bugs.

    Sorry, that happens when using irony in a non-native language...

    What I wanted to express:
    Noone has unlimited time for kernel development.

    > Russell King

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    Adrian

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