Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:57:45 +0000 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: linux-next requirements (Was: Re: [tip:x86/ptrace] ptrace: Add support for generic PTRACE_GETREGSET/PTRACE_SETREGSET) |
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On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 07:52:14PM +0000, Al Viro wrote: > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 09:45:52AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > The solution? Stop this anti-real-world-usage bias already. Stop pretending > > that those cross-build results are as important as say the thousands of real > > bugzilla entries we have. They are fine info, but the kind of priority you are > > giving them is causing a waste of resources. > > Ho-hum... "Kernel won't build for several thousand boxen"... "Five lines > contain trailing whitespace"... Yup, the latter is far higher priority, > all right.
IOW, I'd buy that argument from somebody who didn't protect checkpatch.pl wankers against exactly that kind of criticism.
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