Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:21:02 +0100 | | From | Jörn Engel <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2/3 mtd: add support for flash on the SEGA Dreamcast Visual Memory Unit |
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On Mon, 24 March 2008 12:06:24 +0000, Adrian McMenamin wrote: > I have no desire to have a flame war over this. But I didn't understand > the sentence, was told twice that I should act on it and asked twice > simply what it meant. Eg the second time... > > "I'm sorry, but the comment above <snap> isn't good english. What do you > mean?"
Just for reference, I had no bloody idea what the "<snap>" in your sentence meant. Or what the comment as a whole was referring to. In other words, we could't communicate.
Probably more important is the thing you didn't ask about. The cast is - to use a techinical term - crap. And when someone ignores such things, but instead makes a comment about my English language skills, my natural response is to suspect a troll. Trolls tend to replace "I don't understand <foo>" with "you are an idiot" in some disguise like a comment about hairstyle or language skills.
You ignored other things as well. In general, the things you ignored are a lot more important than the things you didn't ignore. Which again is a good recipe for fruitless discussions, if not flamewars. As is a metadiscussion about previous discussions - like this one.
> Not unreasonable I think. After the second time I was told all > communication would cease. And, yes, that did annoy me, especially when > the next thing I get is someone telling me I didn't listen to them.
Then maybe we can end the digressions and get back to the code and improving it? I would welcome that. Would you mind if I sent you patches against your code? Might be a way to avoid metadiscussions as much as possible.
Jörn
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